The Battle of Kursk
Дата: 20.07.2011 15:53:05
sekteilone, on 20 July 2011 - 02:27 PM, said: Mhm....maybe you should use more sources not only the russian
ones.Its clear that russians lost alot more tanks and men then the Germans did.
Germany felt back..not because they lost...because the allies were invading Sicily.
THIS was the point were Operation Citadel was aborted.
LiannaSilverwind: Let's speak about dates based on "incredible source" called
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia....Battle_of_Kursk, that I
suppose is not influenced by Soviet propaganda.
Allied landing on Sicily: 9-10th July 1943
Model from the North - last minor gains on 10th July. Advance has stopped.
Manstein from the South - stalemate at 12th July, German believed they have only the last line before them, when they had five more to breach.
Three days later (past 9-10th July), Hitler summoned Günther von Kluge and Erich von Manstein to his Wolfsschanze headquarters in East Prussia and declared his intention to "temporarily" call off Operation Zitadelle. Von Manstein attempted to dissuade him, arguing that Zitadelle was on the brink of victory: "on no account should we let go of the enemy until the mobile reserves which he had committed were decisively beaten". In an unusual reversal of their roles, Hitler gave von Manstein a few more days to continue the offensive, but on 17 July, he ordered a withdrawal and canceled the operation. He then ordered the entire SS Panzer Korps to be transferred to Italy.
Allied landing on Sicily: 9-10th July 1943
Model from the North - last minor gains on 10th July. Advance has stopped.
Manstein from the South - stalemate at 12th July, German believed they have only the last line before them, when they had five more to breach.
Three days later (past 9-10th July), Hitler summoned Günther von Kluge and Erich von Manstein to his Wolfsschanze headquarters in East Prussia and declared his intention to "temporarily" call off Operation Zitadelle. Von Manstein attempted to dissuade him, arguing that Zitadelle was on the brink of victory: "on no account should we let go of the enemy until the mobile reserves which he had committed were decisively beaten". In an unusual reversal of their roles, Hitler gave von Manstein a few more days to continue the offensive, but on 17 July, he ordered a withdrawal and canceled the operation. He then ordered the entire SS Panzer Korps to be transferred to Italy.
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