Battle of Kursk: A Decisive Defeat or Germany's Lost Victory?

The Battle of Kursk, the climax of Operation Citadel, involved up to 6,000 tanks, 4,000 aircraft and 2 million fighting personnel and is remembered as one of the largest tank battle in history and it was the German army's final attempt to slow down the Soviet military.

The Battle of Kursk began on July 4, 1943, with a German attack in the south to acquire artillery observation. On July 5, the Germans launched an attack on both shoulders of the Kursk salient.

The fight was furious. The frontlines in the north immediately stabilised, but German forces made progress in the south.

The critical moment occurred on July 12, when they reached the village of Prokhorovka. The II SS Panzer Corps and the Soviet Fifth Guards Tank Army clashed in a massive battle of armoured vehicles with hundreds of tanks lost on both sides.

Prokhorovka is one of the most well-known of the many battles on the Eastern Front during World War II.

Articles, books, and TV documentaries have all been presented about it but the accuracy of these accounts varies; some are just incomplete while others border on fiction.

While historians have labelled Prokhorovka as a victory of improved Soviet tactics versus German firepower and heavy tanks new evidences reveal that the Germans were closer to victory at Kursk than previously believed.

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