Why Germany Lost the Battle of Kursk 1943 (WW2 Documentary)

Nebula with 40% off annual subscription with my link: Watch 16 Days in Berlin: 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 – the battle of Kursk. The German Army wanted to hit the Red Army so hard that they couldn’t go on the offensive again. And indeed, new research shows that the Soviets suffered shockingly high casualties, up to 6 times more men and equipment. But why then did the Germans lose this historic battle? » SUPPORT US » THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Raymond 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 Røste, 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 » SOURCES BESSONOV, EVGENI. Tank Rider. Into the Reich with the Red Army. New York, 2017. GLANTZ, DAVID M./ORENSTEIN, HAROLD S. (Hg.), The Battle for Kursk 1943. The Soviet General Staff Study, London 1999. GORBACH, VITALY G.: Nad Ognennoy Dugoy: Sovyetskaya aviatsiya v Kurskoy bitve Moscow 2007. KRIVOSHEEV, GRIGORI F., Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century, London/Pennsylvania 1997. POPJEL, NIKOLAI N., Panzer greifen an, Berlin (Ost) 1964. ROKOSSOWSKI, KONSTANTIN K., Soldatenpflicht. Erinnerungen eines Frontoberbefehlshabers Berlin (Ost) 1971. RUTHERFORD, JEFF, Germany’s Total War: Combat and Occupation around the Kursk Salient, 1943, in: The Journal of Military History, 85 (2021), S. 954–979. STADLER, SILVESTER (Hg.), Die Offensive gegen Kursk 1943. II. SS-Panzerkorps als Stoßkeil im Großkampf, Osnabrück 1980. TÖPPEL, ROMAN, Kursk 1943: Die größte Schlacht des Zweiten Weltkrieges, 2017. TÖPPEL, ROMAN, Kursk 1943: The Greatest Battle of the Second World War, Warwick 2018. WAISS, WALTER: Chronik Kampfgeschwader Nr. 27 Boelcke. Teil 4: , Aachen 2007. »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Above Zero Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: Research by: Roman Töppel, Jesse Alexander Fact checking: Jesse Alexander, Florian Wittig Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster Contains licensed material by getty images and AP Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 Music Library: Epidemic Sound All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2023