The picture shows the Battle of Kursk
During World War 2, the Soviet Union made great sacrifices to resist the attack of Nazi Germany, and also played many classic examples that are still recited to people, such as the largest tank battle in human history, the Battle of Kursk, and even some people believe that the significance of this battle is even greater than the defense of Stalingrad, because it means the beginning of the soviet Red Army's full-line counteroffensive, and also makes the power of the soviet tank force steel torrent fully displayed, and finally crushed nazi Germany's hegemonic ambitions.
At the beginning of 1943, the Red Army of the Soviet Union won a decisive victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, which dealt a huge blow to the German army, but because it was too light on the enemy,The Red Army, which was pursuing the victory, was trapped by several German troops, suffered certain losses, and was forced to stop attacking and stabilizing the front, while at the same time, the German commander Manstein won the Battle of Kharkov and built a salient in the Kursk region, and then Manstein hoped to fight steadily. Hitler asked him to launch an offensive in Kursk to destroy this salient, Manstein could only obey the order, in fact, the situation before the start of the battle was somewhat favorable to the German army, because Kursk was deep into the German front, and if Manstein could launch a successful pincer offensive, a large number of Soviet troops in the Kursk salient would be unable to escape the fate of being surrounded and annihilated.
The picture shows a destroyed German tank
At that time, the Soviet army deployed heavy troops in Kursk, including 510,000 people of the Central Front, 460,000 people of the Voronezh Front, and more than 3,000 tanks of various types, while the German army gathered 330,000 people of the 9th Army in the north of the salient, nearly 100,000 people of the Central 2nd Army, and 350,000 people of the Southern Army Group, planning to launch a pincer offensive, because the Soviet Union was superior, the German army sent nearly 4,000 tanks of various types from all over the country to participate in the battle, turning this battle into the largest number of tanks in human history.
However, Hitler hesitated suddenly before the launch of the campaign, asking for a postponement of the campaign in order to send more new tanks to the front, resulting in the campaign being launched more than two months later than expected, but the strength of the Soviet army grew faster during this time, and through the capture of prisoners and other means, the Soviet army knew in advance the German plan to launch the campaign on July 5, 1943, and launched artillery counter-preparations against the German army a few hours before the start of the campaign, causing an unexpected blow to the German army, so that the entire Battle of Kursk was hurriedly opened The new Panther tanks and the No. 4 late tank sent by Hitler at the beginning of the war did give the Germans a certain advantage in the battle, and the Soviet T34 tanks could not penetrate their armor at a normal engagement distance, but the Soviet Union soon brought in more reinforcements than the Germans, blocking the German pincer offensive and exhausting the German offensive.
The picture shows the Attack of the Soviet Army
At the time of the stalemate between the Soviet and German armies, new changes came, the Allied troops landed in Sicily, Italy, the country was unable to resist the request for help from Germany, and Germany could not send enough reinforcements, and due to the stubborn resistance of the Soviet Union, Germany's pincer offensive had collapsed, and even risked being counter-encircled, on August 27, 1943, Hitler, who could not see the hope of victory, forcibly ordered the battle to be stopped, and the German army withdrew to the starting line and declared the end of the entire campaign
After the Battle of Kursk, the German army on the Eastern Front completely lost the initiative, it is difficult to launch a large-scale attack against the Soviet Union, and this battle also proved the Advantage of the Soviet Union in industrial capabilities, although in the Battle of Kursk, the German army maintained the superior tank loss-to-exchange ratio, but every time the German army destroyed a tank, the Soviet Union could send three or more tanks to the front, and finally the Soviet Union maintained such an advantage until the Berlin Building was conquered.