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Kursk: The Day Germany Lost the War in Four Hours

Forgotten Fronts

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Germany chose the time. Germany chose the place. Germany brought its newest tanks and its best divisions. And it still lost — at Kursk, the largest tank battle in human history, and the moment Hitler's last real chance to win the war in the east disappeared for good.

In this video: Operation Citadel, the Soviet defense-in-depth strategy that out-prepared the Wehrmacht, the Battle of Prokhorovka, and why historians consider Kursk — not Stalingrad — the true point of no return on the Eastern Front.

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Topics covered: Battle of Kursk, Operation Citadel, Prokhorovka, Tiger tank, Panther tank, Georgy Zhukov, Eastern Front WW2, largest tank battle in history

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9 Comments

@keesvanharen9791 3 days ago

Your comment aren’t correct. Germany didn’t had the chance the win, they just had an opportunity to delay and gain initiative again. However, German high command knew they couldn’t compensate the losses which wasn’t a problem for the Russians. Also Hitler didn’t want this attack, he wanted to focus on the industrial heart of the Russians in the Ukraine, it where his generals who wanted this battle.

@cookml 2 days ago

13:38. Not in the aftermath but BEFORE the battle.

@Bluff42 3 days ago (edited)

Wow, how much you guys wish the Germans won but history is impassive and truthful. your betting on Germany has been futile.

@markmccormack1796 2 days ago

Well, the Soviets knew where and approx., when the Germans were attacking. The Soviet spies in Britain were sharing German coded message intercepts.

@borisarcher3160 1 day ago

Come on, 2nd SS Panzer Corp had less than 300 and the 5th Guard Tank Army had 600. You are using the number that created by a defeated and scared Soviet Tank General, which had been denied after collapse of USSR.

@cookml 2 days ago

0:05 You cannot be serious: this is a modern map of Russian Federation and not a map of the Soviet Union as of 1941. And somehow Prohorovka is off your map of the Soviet Union/Russia. In either case it should be within. Can you ask somebody to preview your videos?

@jeffanderson963 1 day ago

Saying germany lost in 4 hours is total bullshit.

@Mr_Fu_Manchu 1 day ago

Germany never had the resources to win the war, the idiot that was Hitler did gamble and lost, the war was lost before it began!

@alfred-vz8ti 2 days ago

germany was lost when it turned away from moscow. didn't know it.
germany lost when stalingrad was ringed and scooped up. they knew it then.
kursk was a delaying action, russian numbers and material sopped up german skill and desperation. never any view of victory.