![]() ![]() ![]() The only remains were the blackened hulks and torn bodies that littered both the city and the surrounding countryside. The vaunted German 6th army and entire divisions of allies were simply sucked off the face of the Motherland as with a giant brown vacuum cleaner. That meant one soldier in ten had disappeared from the German ranks. In a battle that lasted for six months, one tenth of the entire Germany army was lost. The second winter, a calamity of major proportions. The first winter in Russia was for the Wehrmacht a nightmare. The path that had led both forces to this point was marked with danger signs for Germany from the start. ![]() From Kursk on to the end, the Wehrmacht began a bloody trek back to whence they had come two years earlier. Oh the war would go on, of course, but this would be the last great offensive action of the German army in the East. Ultimately it was a conflict in which skilled warriors with high-tech equipment would fight a larger swarming horde of lesser-trained, but equally motivated soldiers, tankers, and airmen in a fight to the finish. Both forces demonstrated clearly that they had the will and the desire to win. If it had been it would have ended in a draw. The German army would stand toe to toe with the Russian bear in a slugfest to the bitter end. Though the fighting never reached it, Kursk would be the infamous name attached to this mighty series of battles. It would take place in southern Russia in an uneven circle of some 75 miles with the town of Kursk at its center. Sooner or later, there would be a decisive battle that would decide the final course of the war. The pendulum swung one way and then the other. The two opposing sides had been hammering at one another for two years. ![]() It seems now that the battle of Kursk was really inevitable. Prokhorovka: The Deciding Battle of Kursk By Wild Bill Wilder ![]()
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