A Perspective on the Battle of Kursk

I had seen this before but had to watch it again because he is just so entertaining.

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The most significant thing about Kursk is not that the Soviets stopped it (apart from the limited breakthrough elements of the SS panzer units achieved) but instead in them launching an immediate counter offensive that threatened to encircle the northern German pincer forcing German withdrawal.

The Prokhorovka battle (which was hundreds of tanks, not thousands) was basically not of all that great significance. The Germans could neither sustain nor reinforce it.

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The Soviets had a different recovery philosophy to the Germans where the emphasis was on cycling new formations into combat rather than keeping units in combat with fast repairs.
But since the original questions was around German versus Soviet wrecks in an aerial photograph of a German held battlefield one would expect Soviet recovery efforts to be far less effective than on a battlefield in Soviet hands.

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