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The Battle of Kursk was the first time a Wehrmacht strategic offensive was halted before it could break through enemy defences and penetrate to its strategic depths.

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  • The Battle of Kursk was the first time a Wehrmacht strategic offensive was halted before it could break through enemy defences and penetrate to its strategic depths.
  • The Battle of Kursk was a large armored engagement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on the eastern front near the city of Kursk during World War II. The battle is considered to be the largest armored engagement in history and was Germany's last offensive on the Eastern Front.
  • The Battle of Kursk was the largest tank battle to take place in World War II. The two main forces were the Soviet Union and Germany. The battle began on July 4, 1943 and it ended on August 23, 1943. The German codename for this battle was Operation Citadel and along with this battle being one of the biggest tank battles, the Battle of Kursk was also very costly to aerial forces as well. The goal of this attack by German forces was to reinitiate the push into the Soviet Union after it had been halted during and after the Battle of Stalingrad.
  • The Battle of Kursk or Kursk Campaign (July 4 – July 20, 1943), also called Operation Citadel (German: Unternehmen Zitadelle) by the German Army, was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, and the last German blitzkrieg offensive in the east. The exact definition of the battle varies: the Germans saw it as comprising Operation Citadel only, while the Soviets considered (and Russians today consider) it to include Citadel and the subsequent Soviet counteroffensives, Operation Kutuzov and Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev. Overall, the campaign, which included the famous sub-battle at Prokhorovka, remains both the largest armored engagement and the most costly single day of aerial warfare to date.
  • The Battle of Kursk was a World War II engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk ( southwest of Moscow) in the Soviet Union in July and August 1943. The German offensive was code-named Operation Citadel () and led to one of the largest armoured clashes in history, the Battle of Prokhorovka. The German offensive was countered by two Soviet counteroffensives, Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev () and Operation Kutuzov (). For the Germans, the battle represented the final strategic offensive they were able to mount in the east. For the Soviets, the decisive victory gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the war.
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