The Ultimate Battle of Kursk / Operation Citadel WW2 Documentary #historyfacts
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This movie is a edited version of the best YouTube Kursk documentaries with the fat trimmed out and scaled down to get right to the heart of the battle with the facts and the result of the conflict. I tried to keep it under 2 hours.
**Includes content from:**
Greatest Tank Battles S1 Episode 10
The Battle Of Kursk (Tanks!)
Battlefield S4 Episode 1
Battlefield S6 Episode 1
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Operation Citadel (German: Unternehmen Zitadelle) was the German offensive operation in July 1943 against Soviet forces in the Kursk salient, proposed by Generalfeldmarschall Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein during the Second World War on the Eastern Front that initiated the Battle of Kursk. The deliberate defensive operation that the Soviets implemented to repel the German offensive is referred to as the Kursk Strategic Defensive Operation. The German offensive was countered by two Soviet counter-offensives, Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev (Russian: Полководец Румянцев) and Operation Kutuzov (Russian: Кутузов). For the Germans, the battle was the final strategic offensive that they were able to launch on the Eastern Front. As the Allied invasion of Sicily began, Adolf Hitler was forced to divert troops training in France to meet the Allied threats in the Mediterranean, rather than use them as a strategic reserve for the Eastern Front. Germany's extensive loss of men and tanks ensured that the victorious Soviet Red Army enjoyed the strategic initiative for the remainder of the war.