{"id":86125,"date":"2024-03-10T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=86125"},"modified":"2024-03-09T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T20:12:16","slug":"why-germany-lost-the-battle-of-kursk-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/03\/10\/why-germany-lost-the-battle-of-kursk-1943\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Germany Lost the Battle of Kursk, 1943"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/etIL-f8NfIc?si=kZ12viNzH4TfNWnj\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Real Time History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Nov 3, 2023<\/p>\n<p>In summer 1943, Germany and the Soviet Union fought the arguably biggest single battle in history with millions of men, thousands of tanks and artillery guns \u2013 the battle of Kursk. The German Army wanted to hit the Red Army so hard that they couldn&#8217;t go on the offensive again. And indeed, new research shows that the Soviets suffered shockingly high casualties, up to six times more men and equipment. But why then did the Germans lose this historic battle?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT US<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00bb THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS<br \/>\nRaymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen R\u00f8ste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES<br \/>\nBESSONOV, EVGENI. <em>Tank Rider. Into the Reich with the Red Army<\/em>. New York, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>GLANTZ, DAVID M.\/ORENSTEIN, HAROLD S. (Hg.), <em>The Battle for Kursk 1943. The Soviet General Staff Study<\/em>, London 1999.<\/p>\n<p>GORBACH, VITALY G.: <em>Nad Ognennoy Dugoy: Sovyetskaya aviatsiya v Kurskoy bitve<\/em> Moscow 2007.<\/p>\n<p>KRIVOSHEEV, GRIGORI F., <em>Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century<\/em>, London\/Pennsylvania 1997.<\/p>\n<p>POPJEL, NIKOLAI N., <em>Panzer greifen an<\/em>, Berlin (Ost) 1964.<\/p>\n<p>ROKOSSOWSKI, KONSTANTIN K., <em>Soldatenpflicht. Erinnerungen eines Frontoberbefehlshabers<\/em> Berlin (Ost) 1971.<\/p>\n<p>RUTHERFORD, JEFF, &#8220;Germany&#8217;s Total War: Combat and Occupation around the Kursk Salient, 1943&#8221;, in: <em>The Journal of Military History<\/em>, 85 (2021), S. 954\u2013979.<\/p>\n<p>STADLER, SILVESTER (Hg.), <em>Die Offensive gegen Kursk 1943. II. SS-Panzerkorps als Sto\u00dfkeil im Gro\u00dfkampf<\/em>, Osnabr\u00fcck 1980.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00d6PPEL, ROMAN, <em>Kursk 1943: Die gr\u00f6\u00dfte Schlacht des Zweiten Weltkrieges<\/em>, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00d6PPEL, ROMAN, <em>Kursk 1943: The Greatest Battle of the Second World War<\/em>, Warwick 2018.<\/p>\n<p>WAISS, WALTER: <em>Chronik Kampfgeschwader Nr. 27 Boelcke. Teil 4: 01.01.1943-31.12.1943<\/em>, Aachen 2007. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbCREDITS<br \/>\nPresented by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nWritten by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nDirector: Toni Steller &#038; Florian Wittig<br \/>\nDirector of Photography: Toni Steller<br \/>\nSound: Above Zero<br \/>\nEditing: Toni Steller<br \/>\nMotion Design: Philipp Appelt<br \/>\nMixing, Mastering &#038; Sound Design: <a href=\"http:\/\/above-zero.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/above-zero.com<\/a><br \/>\nResearch by: Roman T\u00f6ppel, Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nFact checking: Jesse Alexander, Florian Wittig <\/p>\n<p>Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster<\/p>\n<p>Contains licensed material by getty images and AP<br \/>\nMaps: MapTiler\/OpenStreetMap Contributors &#038; GEOlayers3<br \/>\nMusic Library: Epidemic Sound<br \/>\nAll rights reserved &#8211; Real Time History GmbH 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Time History Published Nov 3, 2023 In summer 1943, Germany and the Soviet Union fought the arguably biggest single battle in history with millions of men, thousands of tanks and artillery guns \u2013 the battle of Kursk. 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