The panzers of Prokhorovka the myth of Hitler's greatest armoured defeat
Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulikovo, where the Mongols were defeated in 1380; Borodino, where Russian troops slowed Napoleon's Grande Armee before Moscow in 1812; the third is Prokhorovka. This is widely described as the most critical tank battle of the Second...
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adam_text | Contents Foreword by Dr Karl-Heinz Frieser Preface Introduction 7 9 io i The Historical Record 19 2 Prelude to Prokhorovka, February-11 July 1943 26 3 The Battle of Prokhorovka, 12 July 1943: The Statistical Battle 46 4 The Battle of Prokhorovka, 12 July 1943: A True Narrative 90 5 From Attack to Defence: The Battle of Kursk Following Operation Citadel, mid-July-31 August 1943 iИ 6 The ‘Death’ of the ‘Panzers of Prokhorovka, September 1943-April 1944 13 5 Conclusion Bibliography Appendices A LSSAHAFV strength duringJuly 1943 В DR AFV strength duringJuly 1943 C SS-TAFV strength duringJuly 1943 D II SS Panzer Korps HQ AFVstrength during July 1943 E Surviving Prokhorovka: Longevity ofAFV present with LSSAH and DR on 1.7.43 F German total losses ofthe Army, 22.6.41— 20.3.42 167 178 185 185 186 186 187 188 210
THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA G Strength ofthe German Field Army (Heer only) 211 H Changes in strength ofthe German Army on the Eastern Front, іу. 6.41-1.7.44 211 I Comparative strength ofthe Wehrmacht and Red Army in 194y (some figures estimated) 212 J The wider ‘Prokhorovka Axis’: Divisional/unit AFV strength of Operation Citadel ’s ‘southern pincer (Heer only), July 194y 213 К The wider ‘Prokhorovka Axis’: AFV losses TF and ya — ofthe ‘southern pincer’during Operation Citadel and its aftermath, July 194y 220 L The wider ‘Prokhorovka Axis’: Army Group South’sfaulty 5-10.7.4y and S-U-T-dS AFV total loss reports (supplied to the General Inspector of Panzer Troops) 224 Μ The wider ‘Prokhorovka Axis’: Korps AFV strength of Operation Citadel ’s ‘southern pincer’, July 194y ггб N The wider ‘Prokhorovka Axis : TotalAFV strength ofthe ‘southern pincer’ during Operation Citadel and its aftermath, July 194y 228 О AFV strength ofunits that remained with AGS in the Citadel ’area in late July 194y 228 P Daytime air sorties and losses, y—17.7.4y 229 List ofFigures 230 List ofIllustrations in Plate Section 232 List ofMaps 242 List of Tables 243 Acknowledgements 246 List ofFrequently Used Abbreviations 248 Notes 250 Index 311 6
BIBLIOGRAPHY Caidin, Martin, The Tigers are Burning (New York: Hawthorn Books 1974) Chamberlain, Peter, and Doyle, Hilary, Encyclopaedia of German Tanks of World War Two (London: Arms and Armour 2001) Citino, Robert, The Wehrmacht Retreats: The Campaigns of1943 (Kansas: University Press of Kansas 2012) Clark, Lloyd, Kursk: The Greatest Battle (London: Headline Review 2012) Cross, Robin, The Battle ofKursk: Operation Citadel 1943 (London: Penguin Books 1993) Evans, Richard, The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis led Germany from Conquest to Disaster (London: Allen Lane 2008) Forczyk, Robert, Kursk 1943: The Northern Front (Oxford: Osprey 2014) Forczyk, Robert, Kursk 1943: The Southern Front (Oxford: Osprey 2017) Forczyk, Robert, Panther vs. T-34: Ukraine 1943 (Oxford: Osprey 2007) Forczyk, Robert, The Dnepr 1943: Hitler’s Eastern Rampart Crumbles (Oxford: Osprey 2016) Friedli, Lukas, Repairing the Panzers: German Tank Maintenance in World War 2 Vol i. (Monroe: Panzerwrecks Publishing 2010) Friedli, Lukas, Repairing the Panzers: German Tank Maintenance in World War 2, Vol 2. (Monroe: Panzerwrecks Publishing 2011) Frieser, Karl-Heinz, The Battle ofthe Kursk Salient in The Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam, Germany, Germany and the Second World War Volume VIII — The Eastern Front 1943—1944 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2017) Frieser, Karl-Heinz, The Swing ofthe Pendulum: The Withdrawal ofthe Eastern Frontfrom Summer 1943 to Summer 1944 in The Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam, Germany, Germany and the Second World War Volume VIIIThe Eastern Front
1943-1944 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2017) Glantz, David, From the Don to the Dnepr (London: Frank Cass 1991) Glantz, David, Soviet Military Intelligence in War (Oxon: Frank Cass 1990) Glantz, David, and House, Jonathan, The Battle ofKursk (Shepperton: Ian Allan 1999) Guderian, Heinz, Panzer Leader (London: Penguin 2009) Healy, Mark, Kursk 1943: The Tide Turns in the East (Oxford: Osprey 1999) Hill, Alexander, The Red Army and the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017) Jentz, Thomas (ed.), Panzer Truppen II (Atglen: Schiffer 1996) Kroener, Bernhard R., Management ofHuman Resources, Deployment ofthe Population, and Manning the Armed Forces in the Second Halfofthe War (1942-1944) in The Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam, Germany, Germany and the Second World War Volume VHI— Organization and Mobilization in the German Sphere ofPower: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1942—1944/3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2003) Lak, Martijn, ‘The Death Ride of the Panzers? Recent Historiography on the Battle of Kursk’, Journal ofMilitary History, 82:3 (2018) 181
THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA Lawrence, Christopher, Kursk: The Battle ofProkhorovka (Sheridan: Aberdeen Books 2015) Lawrence, Christopher, The Battle ofProkhorovka: The Tank Battle at Kursk, the Largest Clash ofArmor in History (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books 2019) Lower, Wendy, Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press 2005) MacDougall, Roddy, and Neely, Darren, Nürnbergs Panzer Factory, A Photographic Study (Monroe: Panzerwrecks Publishing 2013) Månsson, Martin, Prokhorovka — Verdens største panserslag in Osfronten (2017) Manstein, Erich von, Lost Victories (Munich: Bernard and Graefe Verlag 1982) Melvin, Mungo, Manstein, Hitlers Greatest General (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2010) Merridale, Catherine, Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army (New York: Picador 2006) Nevshemal, Martin, Objective Ponyrii The Defeat ofXXXXTPanzerKorps at Ponyri Train Station (Sydney: Leaping Horseman Books 2015) Niehorster, Leo, German World War LT Organization Series, Volume VTL (Milton Keynes: The Military Press 2004) Niehorster, Leo, German World War LT Organization Series, Volume VHII (Milton Keynes: The Military Press 2005) Nipe, George, Blood Steel and Myth: TI SS Panzer Korps and the Road to Prochorowka, July 1943 (Stamford: RZM Publishing 2011) O’Brien, Phillips, How the War was Won (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015) Overy, Richard, A History ofWar in 100 Battles (London: William Collins 2014) Overy, Richard, Russia’s War: Blood upon the Snow (London: Penguin 1997) Overy, Richard, The BombingWar: Europe
1939—1943 (London: Penguin 2013) Overy, Richard, Why the Allies Won (New York and London: WW. Norton and Company 1995) Rebentisch, Ernst, The Combat History ofthe 23rd Panzer Division (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books 2012) Restayn, Jean, Operation Citadel, Volume 1: The South (Wininpeg: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing 2021) Roberts, Andrew, The Storm ofWar: A New History ofthe Second World War (London: Penguin 2009) Schneider, Wolfgang, Das Reich Tigers (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz 2006) Schneider, Wolfgang, Tigers in Combat LT (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz 1998) Schneider, Wolfgang, Tigers in Combat I (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz 2000) Schüle, Walter, and Månsson, Martin, Pansarslaget vid Prochorovka (Stockholm: Svenskt Militärhistoriskt Bibliotek 2009) Shepherd, Ben, Hitler’s Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich (New Haven: Yale University Press 2016) Showalter, Dennis, Armor and Blood: The Battle ofKursk: The Turning Point ofWorld War П (New York: Random House 2013) 182
BIBLIOGRAPHY Sokolov, Boris V., The Battle for Kursk, Orel and Charkov: Strategic Intentions and Results. A Critical View of Soviet Historiography’, in Gezeitenwechsel, 69-88. Spezzano, Remy, Waffen-SS Kursk 1943, Volume 4 (Stamford: RZM Publishing 2004) Spezzano, Remy, Waffen-SS Kursk 1943, Volume 4 (Stamford: RZM Publishing 2004) Spezzano, Remy, Waffen-SS Kursk 1943, Volume 6 (Stamford: RZM Publishing 2005) Spielberger, Walter, Doyle, Hilary, and Jentz, Tomas, Heavy Jagdpanzer: Development, Production, Operations (Atglen: Schiffer 2007) Stadler, Sylvester, Die Offensive gegen Kursk, II SS-Panzerkorps als Stosskeil im Grosskampf (Osnabrück: Munin Verlag 1980) Stanley, Roy, Intelligence Images from the Eastern Front (Barnsley: Pen and Sword 2016) Tomzov, Alexander, Tankový udar. Sovetskie tanki v boyakh. 1942—1943 (Moscow: Eksmo 2007) Tooze, Adam, The Wages ofDestruction: The Making and Breaking ofthe Nazi War Economy (London: Allen Lane 2006) Toppéi, Roman, The Battle of Prokhorovka: Facts Against Fables’, Journal ofSlavic Military Studies, 34:2 (2021) Toppéi, Roman, ‘Die Panzerschlacht bei Prochorowka, Fakten gegen Fabeln’, Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e. V (2020) Töppel, Roman, Die größte Schlacht des Zweiten Weltkriegs (Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöning 2017) Töppel, Roman, ‘Kursk - Mythen und Wirklichkeit einer Schlacht’, in Vierteljahrshejte für Zeitgeschichte, 17 (2009) Töppel, Roman, Kursk 1943: The Greatest Battle ofthe Second World War (Solihull: Helion 2018) Wegner, Bernd, From Stalingrad to Kursk in The Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam,
Germany, Germany and the Second World War Volume Vili ibe Eastern Front 1943-1944 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2017) Wegner, Bernd, The War against the Soviet Union 1942—1943 in The Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam, Germany, Germany and the Second World War Volume VI — lhe Global War (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2001) Wheatley, Ben, ‘Citadel, Prokhorovka and Kharkov: The armoured losses of II SS Panzer Korps Sonderverbände during the Battle of Kursk, July-August 1943’, Journal ofIntelligence History, 1-50 (Published online March 2021) Wheatley, Ben, ‘Surviving Prokhorovka: German Armoured Longevity on the Eastern Front in 1943-1944’ , Journal ofIntelligence History, 1-87 (published online June 2020) Wheatley, Ben, Ά Visual Examination of the Battle of Prokhorovka, Journal of Intelligence History, 1-48, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2019) Zaloga, Steven, Armoured Champion: The Top Tanks ofWorld War II (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books 2015) 183
THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA Zamulin, Valeriy, ‘Soviet Troop Losses in the Battle of Prokhorovka, 10-16 July 1943’, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 32:1 (2019) Zamulin, Valeriy, The Battle ofKursk: Controversial and Neglected Aspects (Solihull: Helion 2017) Zamulin, Valeriy, The Battle ofKursk 1943: The View through the Camera Lens (Solihull: Helion 2015) Zamulin, Valeriy, Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka. July 1943՛. An Operational Narrative (Solihull: Helion 2011) Zetterling, Niklas, and Frankson, Anders, Kursk 1943: A Statistical Analysis (London: Frank Cass 2000) 184
Index References to images are in bold. II SS Panzer Korps 12-13, 14-1í 4і and 12 July 90 and advance 42-43 and AFVs losses 46, 47, 48, 50-52, 52-53, 56, 68-70, 72-74, 76-77, 167-70 and artillery losses 79, 80 and France 174 and inventories 19-20 and Kharkov 125-26,128,129, 171 and Mius Front 108 and Nebelwerfer troops 233 and organization 30-31 and Prokhorovka 94,105 and Roland 123-25 and southern pincer 40 and strength 187 AFVs, German 11-17,26-27 And 4th Panzer Army 115-17 and damages and losses 22-25 and documentary evidence 19-22 and Kharkov 128-32 and losses 46, 48, 49-52, 56, 68-70, 72-77, 167-75 Marder tank destroyer 232, 240 and operational numbers 135-36 Panzer III 43-44 Panzer IV 44-45, 233, 238-39 Panzer VI 232 and preparations 31-34 and Prokhorovka losses 108-13 and repairs 117-23 and Roland 123-25 and southern pincer losses 220—23 and strength 148-50, 156-58 and surviving 161—62 and Totenkopf Tiger 29-30 AFVs, Soviet и, 15, 96-98, 100 and losses 81-89,170 Andreyevka 103, 104, 109, 240 anti-tank ditch 12, 17, 79, 105 and King images 180, 23 5-36 and location 15 and LSSAH 93, 94, 96-98, 100, 101-2 and Red Army 175-76 armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) see AFVs, German; AFVs, Soviet Army Group Centre 24, 107-8, 178 9th Army 36, 38 Army Group North 24 Army Group South 24 4th Panzer Army 36,38 and AFV losses 224-26
THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA and Dnieper 136,137-38, 139, and Kampfgruppe status 159, 163 and Kharkov 126, 128-30 and LSSAH tanks 60-61 and new deliveries 54 and Prokhorovka 93, 94, 105, 233, 240 and Soviet AFVs 232 and strength 186 and Ukraine 147,148,150 and weaponry 35,61-62 I5I.I53 and Kharkov 125-26 and Ukraine 156 Attila line 108 Auerbach, William 24-2 5 Bacharev, MajGen tot ‘Battle for the Weapons of the Great Victory’ museum 241 Belaya Tserkov 145, 156 Belgium 163 Belgorod 56,99,233-35 and diorama 240 and LSSAH 108 and recapture 27 and Red Army too, 104 andSS-T 171 Berdichev 139,145,156 Borodino 10 Breith, Gen Hermann 40 Bryansk Front 90 Burdeinei, Col Alexei 91 Caucasus 27 Chistyakov, Gen Ivan Mikhailovich 40 Gössner, Erich-Heinrich 3 8 Cross, Robin: The Battle ofKursk: Operation Citadel 1941·. 14 Darges, Fritz 78-79 Das Reich (DR) (SS Panzergrenadier Division) 14, 16, 20, 22-24, 90 and AFV longevity 18 8-209 and AFV losses 46, 48, 53, 56, 62, 64-65, 68, 71, 72-73, 76-77, 80, 171-72, 173-74 and AFV maintenance 111 and AFV numbers 26-27,30, 31-34,43-45, 13 5-36, 139 and AFV repairs 117-20 and Dnieper 141 and inventories 21-22 Frankson, Anders 172-73 Friedli, Lukas 23 Frieser, Karl-Heinz 12, 114-15 German Army 10-12,210-11 and losses 210-11 and strength 211-12,213-20, 226-28 German Army (units): 2nd Panzer Army 90 4th Panzer Army 19, 20, 21, 68-69, M5 6th Army 27, 48,49 8 th Army 159-60 9th Army 27, 90 III Panzer Korps 40, 216-19 XXXXVIII Panzer Korps 40, 68-69, 213-16 Korps Raus 219-20 19th Panzer Dvn 44 167th Infantry Dvn 108 Grossdeutschland Panzergrenadier Dvn 14,
34 ist SS Panzergrenadier Rgt 79, 94, 104 2nd SS Panzergrenadier Rgt 94, 97, 234, 23 5 236-37 6th SS Panzergrenadier Rgt 105 6th Panzer Company 98 see also AFVs, German; Army Group Centre; Army Group South; Das Reich (DR); II SS Panzer Korps; Leibstandarte 312
INDEX SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH); Totenkopf (SS-T) Glantz, David 102, 103 Göring, Hermann 147 Greznoye 109 Guderian, Gen Heinz 30-31, 151, 153 Hausser, Ob Paul 40, 90, 97 hills: 213.9: 64, 65-66, 68 226.6: 94 241.6: 103-4, 109, 110 252.2: 93, 94, 96-97, 98-100, 23 5, 236-38, 241 252.4: 107 258.2: 108-9,233 Himmler, Heinrich 147 Hitler, Adolf 10,13 and Dnieper 136 and Donets offensive 69 and II SS Panzer Korps 123, 125-26, 171 and LSSAH 58,112,172 and Manstein 116 and pincer attack 36 and tanks 153 and Ukraine 147 homeland maintenance 21,23-25, 76-77, in-12, 151, 153 and II SS Panzer Korps 13,46,61 and Das Reich 44-45, 159 and LSSAH 56, 74, 158 and SS-T 132 Hoth, ColGen Hermann 36 inventories 12-13, 19-22, 43-45 Italy 20, 123, 126 К-werk (repair facilities) 24, 30 and Dnieper retreat 139, 151, 153 and Ukraine 147 Kalinin 105 Katukov, Gen Mikhail Efimovich 40 Kempf, Gen Werner 36 Kettle, Walter 99 Kharkov 13, 20, 27 and Army Group South 12 5-26 and counter-attack 128-32,134 and liberation 127 and tank strength 171 Kiev 143, 145, 148 map 146 King, Johan 93 Kirichenko, MajGen I. E 92, 96 Kirovograd 159-60 Kluge, FM Günther von 36 Knobelsdorff, Gen Otto von 40 Komsomolets state farm 102,108, 234, 235 Konev, Gen Ivan Stepanovich 36 Korosten 147,150,156 Kriuchenkin, Gen Vasily Dmitrievich 93 Kulikovo i о Kursk, battle of (1943) 10-11, 14, 27, 90-91, 114-15 Kutuzov, Mikhail 10 Lak, Martijn 14 Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) (SS Panzergrenadier Division) 14, 16, 17, 20 and 12 July 90 and AFV longevity 18 8—209 and AFV losses 46, 56, 73-74, 76-78, 170, 173 and AFV transfers 57-61
and AFVs 26-27, 30, 31-34, 41, 43.43-44 and artillery losses 79 and Donets River 68, 71 and Eastern Front 126,128 and inventories 21-22 and new deliveries 53-54 and Prokhorovka 93-94, 98-100, 101-4, 106-7, 108-13, 2 3 3-3 8 and repairs 120-23 313
THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA and Soviet AFVs 8 2 and strength 185 and Ukraine 145,147-48,150-51,, 156, 158-59, 160 and weaponry 34-35, 232 and Western Front 163 Leningrad 174 Lötzsch, Georg 102 LSSAH see Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) Luftwaffe: and daytime sorties 229 and Prokhorovka 99-100, 104 and reconnaissance photos 15, 16-17 and Stuka attacks 237 Malchow, OA Walter 99 Manstein, FM Erich von 27, 36, 40 and Dnieper 136 and Kharkov 129 and Kursk 114-15, 126 and Roland 116,123 maps: Army Group South retreat to the Dnieper 137-38 Eastern Front (1942—43) 28 eve of Operation Citadel 39 German Operation Citadel plan 37 II SS Panzer Korps advance 42-43 liberation of Kharkov 127 liberation of Kiev 146 liberation of western Ukraine 154-55,164 lower Dnieper 152 Myshuryn Rog bridgehead 140 Prokhorovka, battle of 95 Matyukhin, Eugene too Meldung (reports) 22, 58-61, 132 Mius River гу and counteroffensive 126,128 and offensive 74-76 and SS-T advance 67 Model, ColGen Walter 36, 38, 90 Mongols 10 Motor Transport Officer (MTO) 19, 20-21 4th Panzer Army 115-17 Museum o f Armoured Vehicles 241 Myshuryn Rog bridgehead 140,141, 142 Napoleon Bonaparte 10 Nehring, Gen Walther 123 Neu, Maj 115-16 Normandy 11,174 Oktiabrskiy state farm 79, 93, 97, 98, 107 Operation Citadel(1943) io-ii, 12-13, ։6, 30-34 and German losses 68-70, 72-78, 167-70, 172-73 and inventory 20 maps 37, 39 and Red Army 114-15 and southern pincer 3 5-36, 38, 40-41,43-45, 213-23, 226-28 and Soviet losses 81-87 operations: Advent (1943) 150-51 Kutuzov (1943) 38,107-8 Roland (1943) 107,108,115-16, 123-25 Rumyantsev
(1943) 126-33 see aho Operation Citadel (1943) photography 16-17, i75 176 Popov, Gen Maridan 38 Priess, Ob Hermann 90 Prokhorovka, battle of (1943) 10, 11-17, 93-94, 96-108, 233-39 and AFV losses 170 and inventory 20 map 95 3M
INDEX and museums 240-41 and opposing forces 90-93 and Red Army 175-77 and Tiger tank losses 108-13 Psel River 16, 40 Red Army 10-11 and counteroffensives 36,38, 40-41 and Dnieper 136, 141-42 and Kharkov 129, 132, 134 and Kev 143, 145 and Kursk 114-15 and losses 170 and Rotmistrov 90-92 and sorties 229 and strength 212-13 and Ukraine 145,147-48,156, 159-60 see abo AFVs, Soviet Red Army (units): 5 th Guards Tank Army 11-12, 35, 82-89, 105-6, 175-76 18th Tank Corps 10X-2 29th Tank Corps 16, 96, 98, 175-76, 235, 239 9th Guards Paratroop Dvn 93 25th Tank Bde 79,104-5, 240 170th Tank Bde 79,101,102-4, 239 181st Tank Bde 79,101,102, 103-4, 235, 2-39-4° Ribbentrop, Ob Rudolf von 94, 96, 97, 98-99 Rokossovsky, Gen Konstantin Konstantinovich 36 Romania 165 Rotmistrov, Gen Pavel 12, 88-89, 90-92 and German AFV losses 168 and Prokhorovka 94 and Tiger tanks 108 Rzhev salient 27 semi-tracked armoured personnel carriers (SPWs) 34 Shumilov, Gen Mikhail Stepanovich 40 Skvortsov, Maj Gen B. Μ. 91 social media 11 Sokolovsky, Gen Vasily 3 8 Sonderverbände see Das Reich; Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler; Totenkopf South-West Front 136,141 Soviet Union see AFVs, Soviet; Red Army; Stavka spare parts 111-12,135,153 Speer, Albert 153 SS-T see Totenkopf (SS-T) Stalin, Joseph 88-89 Stalingrad, battle of (1942) 27 Stalinsk state farm 104-5 Stavka (Soviet High Command) 40, 90, 136 Steppe Front 36, 38, 40, 123, 176 and Dnieper 136,141 Storozhevoye Woods 16,105,108 tanks, German see AFVs, German tanks, Soviet see AFVs, Soviet Teterevino 108,233-34 ‘Third Battlefield of Russia’ museum 108, 240, 241
Timewatch (documentary series) 14 Totalverluste reports in Totenkopf (SS-T) (SS Panzergrenadier Division) 14, 16, 20 and AFV losses 46, 48, 53, 56, 68-70, 72-77, 80, 171-72, 174 and AFV numbers 135-36,139 and AFVs 26-27,29-30,31-34, 43-44 and Dnieper 142 and inventories 21-22, 62-64, 68 and Kharkov 126,128-29, 130-32 and Mius advance 67 ЗИ
THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA and new deliveries 55 and Prokhorovka 93-94, 105, 107, 108-10 and repairs 117-20 and strength 186-87 and Ukraine 165 and weaponry 3 5 Ukraine 147-48, 150-51, 165 maps 154-55, 164 and western liberation 156, 158-60 see also Dnieper River; Kiev Vasilevka 109 Vasilevsky, Marshal Aleksandr Mikhailovich 105 Vatutin, Gen Nikolai Fedorovich 38, 40, M3 Victory Monument ‘Belfry’ 241 Vinnitsa 147 Voronezh Front 38, 40-41, 93, 115 and Dnieper 136,141 , weaponry, German 17, 26—27 anti-tank guns 34-3 5 assault guns 61-62, 232 and losses 79-80,210—11 weaponry, Soviet 232 Wehrmacht 10-11,212-13; see abo German Army; Luftwaffe Weiss, Gen Walter-Otto 3 8 Werlin, Jakob 24 West Front 90,136 Western Front it, 38, 163 Wittmann, Michael 101,104 Wochenmeldung über Panzer und Sturmgeschülzlage Stand (weekly panzer and assault gun status report) 48,49,52-53, 55-56, 61-64 and Kharkov 129, 132 and losses 167, 169-70 Yasnaya Polyana 105 Yegorov, Anatoly 176 Zamulin, Valeriy 82,88 and Prokhorovka 97, 99, 100 Zeitzier, Gen Kurt 36 Zetterling, Niklas 172-73 Zhadov, Gen Aleksey Semenovich 93 Zhitomir Bsysrisíh® 147,156, 158
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Contents Foreword by Dr Karl-Heinz Frieser Preface Introduction 7 9 io i The Historical Record 19 2 Prelude to Prokhorovka, February-11 July 1943 26 3 The Battle of Prokhorovka, 12 July 1943: The Statistical Battle 46 4 The Battle of Prokhorovka, 12 July 1943: A True Narrative 90 5 From Attack to Defence: The Battle of Kursk Following Operation Citadel, mid-July-31 August 1943 iИ 6 The ‘Death’ of the ‘Panzers of Prokhorovka, September 1943-April 1944 13 5 Conclusion Bibliography Appendices A LSSAHAFV strength duringJuly 1943 В DR AFV strength duringJuly 1943 C SS-TAFV strength duringJuly 1943 D II SS Panzer Korps HQ AFVstrength during July 1943 E Surviving Prokhorovka: Longevity ofAFV present with LSSAH and DR on 1.7.43 F German total losses ofthe Army, 22.6.41— 20.3.42 167 178 185 185 186 186 187 188 210
THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA G Strength ofthe German Field Army (Heer only) 211 H Changes in strength ofthe German Army on the Eastern Front, іу. 6.41-1.7.44 211 I Comparative strength ofthe Wehrmacht and Red Army in 194y (some figures estimated) 212 J The wider ‘Prokhorovka Axis’: Divisional/unit AFV strength of Operation Citadel ’s ‘southern pincer'(Heer only), July 194y 213 К The wider ‘Prokhorovka Axis’: AFV losses TF and ya — ofthe ‘southern pincer’during Operation Citadel and its aftermath, July 194y 220 L The wider ‘Prokhorovka Axis’: Army Group South’sfaulty 5-10.7.4y and S-U-T-dS AFV total loss reports (supplied to the General Inspector of Panzer Troops) 224 Μ The wider ‘Prokhorovka Axis’: Korps AFV strength of Operation Citadel ’s ‘southern pincer’, July 194y ггб N The wider ‘Prokhorovka Axis': TotalAFV strength ofthe ‘southern pincer’ during Operation Citadel and its aftermath, July 194y 228 О AFV strength ofunits that remained with AGS in the Citadel ’area in late July 194y 228 P Daytime air sorties and losses, y—17.7.4y 229 List ofFigures 230 List ofIllustrations in Plate Section 232 List ofMaps 242 List of Tables 243 Acknowledgements 246 List ofFrequently Used Abbreviations 248 Notes 250 Index 311 6
BIBLIOGRAPHY Caidin, Martin, The Tigers are Burning (New York: Hawthorn Books 1974) Chamberlain, Peter, and Doyle, Hilary, Encyclopaedia of German Tanks of World War Two (London: Arms and Armour 2001) Citino, Robert, The Wehrmacht Retreats: The Campaigns of1943 (Kansas: University Press of Kansas 2012) Clark, Lloyd, Kursk: The Greatest Battle (London: Headline Review 2012) Cross, Robin, The Battle ofKursk: Operation Citadel 1943 (London: Penguin Books 1993) Evans, Richard, The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis led Germany from Conquest to Disaster (London: Allen Lane 2008) Forczyk, Robert, Kursk 1943: The Northern Front (Oxford: Osprey 2014) Forczyk, Robert, Kursk 1943: The Southern Front (Oxford: Osprey 2017) Forczyk, Robert, Panther vs. T-34: Ukraine 1943 (Oxford: Osprey 2007) Forczyk, Robert, The Dnepr 1943: Hitler’s Eastern Rampart Crumbles (Oxford: Osprey 2016) Friedli, Lukas, Repairing the Panzers: German Tank Maintenance in World War 2 Vol i. (Monroe: Panzerwrecks Publishing 2010) Friedli, Lukas, Repairing the Panzers: German Tank Maintenance in World War 2, Vol 2. (Monroe: Panzerwrecks Publishing 2011) Frieser, Karl-Heinz, The Battle ofthe Kursk Salient in The Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam, Germany, Germany and the Second World War Volume VIII — The Eastern Front 1943—1944 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2017) Frieser, Karl-Heinz, The Swing ofthe Pendulum: The Withdrawal ofthe Eastern Frontfrom Summer 1943 to Summer 1944 in The Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam, Germany, Germany and the Second World War Volume VIIIThe Eastern Front
1943-1944 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2017) Glantz, David, From the Don to the Dnepr (London: Frank Cass 1991) Glantz, David, Soviet Military Intelligence in War (Oxon: Frank Cass 1990) Glantz, David, and House, Jonathan, The Battle ofKursk (Shepperton: Ian Allan 1999) Guderian, Heinz, Panzer Leader (London: Penguin 2009) Healy, Mark, Kursk 1943: The Tide Turns in the East (Oxford: Osprey 1999) Hill, Alexander, The Red Army and the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017) Jentz, Thomas (ed.), Panzer Truppen II (Atglen: Schiffer 1996) Kroener, Bernhard R., Management ofHuman Resources, Deployment ofthe Population, and Manning the Armed Forces in the Second Halfofthe War (1942-1944) in The Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam, Germany, Germany and the Second World War Volume VHI— Organization and Mobilization in the German Sphere ofPower: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1942—1944/3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2003) Lak, Martijn, ‘The Death Ride of the Panzers? Recent Historiography on the Battle of Kursk’, Journal ofMilitary History, 82:3 (2018) 181
THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA Lawrence, Christopher, Kursk: The Battle ofProkhorovka (Sheridan: Aberdeen Books 2015) Lawrence, Christopher, The Battle ofProkhorovka: The Tank Battle at Kursk, the Largest Clash ofArmor in History (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books 2019) Lower, Wendy, Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press 2005) MacDougall, Roddy, and Neely, Darren, Nürnbergs Panzer Factory, A Photographic Study (Monroe: Panzerwrecks Publishing 2013) Månsson, Martin, Prokhorovka — Verdens største panserslag in Osfronten (2017) Manstein, Erich von, Lost Victories (Munich: Bernard and Graefe Verlag 1982) Melvin, Mungo, Manstein, Hitlers Greatest General (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2010) Merridale, Catherine, Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army (New York: Picador 2006) Nevshemal, Martin, Objective Ponyrii The Defeat ofXXXXTPanzerKorps at Ponyri Train Station (Sydney: Leaping Horseman Books 2015) Niehorster, Leo, German World War LT Organization Series, Volume VTL (Milton Keynes: The Military Press 2004) Niehorster, Leo, German World War LT Organization Series, Volume VHII (Milton Keynes: The Military Press 2005) Nipe, George, Blood Steel and Myth: TI SS Panzer Korps and the Road to Prochorowka, July 1943 (Stamford: RZM Publishing 2011) O’Brien, Phillips, How the War was Won (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015) Overy, Richard, A History ofWar in 100 Battles (London: William Collins 2014) Overy, Richard, Russia’s War: Blood upon the Snow (London: Penguin 1997) Overy, Richard, The BombingWar: Europe
1939—1943 (London: Penguin 2013) Overy, Richard, Why the Allies Won (New York and London: WW. Norton and Company 1995) Rebentisch, Ernst, The Combat History ofthe 23rd Panzer Division (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books 2012) Restayn, Jean, Operation Citadel, Volume 1: The South (Wininpeg: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing 2021) Roberts, Andrew, The Storm ofWar: A New History ofthe Second World War (London: Penguin 2009) Schneider, Wolfgang, Das Reich Tigers (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz 2006) Schneider, Wolfgang, Tigers in Combat LT (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz 1998) Schneider, Wolfgang, Tigers in Combat I (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz 2000) Schüle, Walter, and Månsson, Martin, Pansarslaget vid Prochorovka (Stockholm: Svenskt Militärhistoriskt Bibliotek 2009) Shepherd, Ben, Hitler’s Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich (New Haven: Yale University Press 2016) Showalter, Dennis, Armor and Blood: The Battle ofKursk: The Turning Point ofWorld War П (New York: Random House 2013) 182
BIBLIOGRAPHY Sokolov, Boris V., "The Battle for Kursk, Orel and Charkov: Strategic Intentions and Results. A Critical View of Soviet Historiography’, in Gezeitenwechsel, 69-88. Spezzano, Remy, Waffen-SS Kursk 1943, Volume 4 (Stamford: RZM Publishing 2004) Spezzano, Remy, Waffen-SS Kursk 1943, Volume 4 (Stamford: RZM Publishing 2004) Spezzano, Remy, Waffen-SS Kursk 1943, Volume 6 (Stamford: RZM Publishing 2005) Spielberger, Walter, Doyle, Hilary, and Jentz, Tomas, Heavy Jagdpanzer: Development, Production, Operations (Atglen: Schiffer 2007) Stadler, Sylvester, Die Offensive gegen Kursk, II SS-Panzerkorps als Stosskeil im Grosskampf (Osnabrück: Munin Verlag 1980) Stanley, Roy, Intelligence Images from the Eastern Front (Barnsley: Pen and Sword 2016) Tomzov, Alexander, Tankový udar. Sovetskie tanki v boyakh. 1942—1943 (Moscow: Eksmo 2007) Tooze, Adam, The Wages ofDestruction: The Making and Breaking ofthe Nazi War Economy (London: Allen Lane 2006) Toppéi, Roman, "The Battle of Prokhorovka: Facts Against Fables’, Journal ofSlavic Military Studies, 34:2 (2021) Toppéi, Roman, ‘Die Panzerschlacht bei Prochorowka, Fakten gegen Fabeln’, Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e. V (2020) Töppel, Roman, Die größte Schlacht des Zweiten Weltkriegs (Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöning 2017) Töppel, Roman, ‘Kursk - Mythen und Wirklichkeit einer Schlacht’, in Vierteljahrshejte für Zeitgeschichte, 17 (2009) Töppel, Roman, Kursk 1943: The Greatest Battle ofthe Second World War (Solihull: Helion 2018) Wegner, Bernd, From Stalingrad to Kursk in The Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam,
Germany, Germany and the Second World War Volume Vili ibe Eastern Front 1943-1944 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2017) Wegner, Bernd, The War against the Soviet Union 1942—1943 in The Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam, Germany, Germany and the Second World War Volume VI — lhe Global War (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2001) Wheatley, Ben, ‘Citadel, Prokhorovka and Kharkov: The armoured losses of II SS Panzer Korps Sonderverbände during the Battle of Kursk, July-August 1943’, Journal ofIntelligence History, 1-50 (Published online March 2021) Wheatley, Ben, ‘Surviving Prokhorovka: German Armoured Longevity on the Eastern Front in 1943-1944’', Journal ofIntelligence History, 1-87 (published online June 2020) Wheatley, Ben, Ά Visual Examination of the Battle of Prokhorovka, Journal of Intelligence History, 1-48, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2019) Zaloga, Steven, Armoured Champion: The Top Tanks ofWorld War II (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books 2015) 183
THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA Zamulin, Valeriy, ‘Soviet Troop Losses in the Battle of Prokhorovka, 10-16 July 1943’, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 32:1 (2019) Zamulin, Valeriy, The Battle ofKursk: Controversial and Neglected Aspects (Solihull: Helion 2017) Zamulin, Valeriy, The Battle ofKursk 1943: The View through the Camera Lens (Solihull: Helion 2015) Zamulin, Valeriy, Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka. July 1943՛. An Operational Narrative (Solihull: Helion 2011) Zetterling, Niklas, and Frankson, Anders, Kursk 1943: A Statistical Analysis (London: Frank Cass 2000) 184
Index References to images are in bold. II SS Panzer Korps 12-13, 14-1í 4і and 12 July 90 and advance 42-43 and AFVs losses 46, 47, 48, 50-52, 52-53, 56, 68-70, 72-74, 76-77, 167-70 and artillery losses 79, 80 and France 174 and inventories 19-20 and Kharkov 125-26,128,129, 171 and Mius Front 108 and Nebelwerfer troops 233 and organization 30-31 and Prokhorovka 94,105 and Roland 123-25 and southern pincer 40 and strength 187 AFVs, German 11-17,26-27 And 4th Panzer Army 115-17 and damages and losses 22-25 and documentary evidence 19-22 and Kharkov 128-32 and losses 46, 48, 49-52, 56, 68-70, 72-77, 167-75 Marder tank destroyer 232, 240 and operational numbers 135-36 Panzer III 43-44 Panzer IV 44-45, 233, 238-39 Panzer VI 232 and preparations 31-34 and Prokhorovka losses 108-13 and repairs 117-23 and Roland 123-25 and southern pincer losses 220—23 and strength 148-50, 156-58 and surviving 161—62 and Totenkopf Tiger 29-30 AFVs, Soviet и, 15, 96-98, 100 and losses 81-89,170 Andreyevka 103, 104, 109, 240 anti-tank ditch 12, 17, 79, 105 and King images 180, 23 5-36 and location 15 and LSSAH 93, 94, 96-98, 100, 101-2 and Red Army 175-76 armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) see AFVs, German; AFVs, Soviet Army Group Centre 24, 107-8, 178 9th Army 36, 38 Army Group North 24 Army Group South 24 4th Panzer Army 36,38 and AFV losses 224-26
THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA and Dnieper 136,137-38, 139, and Kampfgruppe status 159, 163 and Kharkov 126, 128-30 and LSSAH tanks 60-61 and new deliveries 54 and Prokhorovka 93, 94, 105, 233, 240 and Soviet AFVs 232 and strength 186 and Ukraine 147,148,150 and weaponry 35,61-62 I5I.I53 and Kharkov 125-26 and Ukraine 156 Attila line 108 Auerbach, William 24-2 5 Bacharev, MajGen tot ‘Battle for the Weapons of the Great Victory’ museum 241 Belaya Tserkov 145, 156 Belgium 163 Belgorod 56,99,233-35 and diorama 240 and LSSAH 108 and recapture 27 and Red Army too, 104 andSS-T 171 Berdichev 139,145,156 Borodino 10 Breith, Gen Hermann 40 Bryansk Front 90 Burdeinei, Col Alexei 91 Caucasus 27 Chistyakov, Gen Ivan Mikhailovich 40 Gössner, Erich-Heinrich 3 8 Cross, Robin: The Battle ofKursk: Operation Citadel 1941·. 14 Darges, Fritz 78-79 Das Reich (DR) (SS Panzergrenadier Division) 14, 16, 20, 22-24, 90 and AFV longevity 18 8-209 and AFV losses 46, 48, 53, 56, 62, 64-65, 68, 71, 72-73, 76-77, 80, 171-72, 173-74 and AFV maintenance 111 and AFV numbers 26-27,30, 31-34,43-45, 13 5-36, 139 and AFV repairs 117-20 and Dnieper 141 and inventories 21-22 Frankson, Anders 172-73 Friedli, Lukas 23 Frieser, Karl-Heinz 12, 114-15 German Army 10-12,210-11 and losses 210-11 and strength 211-12,213-20, 226-28 German Army (units): 2nd Panzer Army 90 4th Panzer Army 19, 20, 21, 68-69, M5 6th Army 27, 48,49 8 th Army 159-60 9th Army 27, 90 III Panzer Korps 40, 216-19 XXXXVIII Panzer Korps 40, 68-69, 213-16 Korps Raus 219-20 19th Panzer Dvn 44 167th Infantry Dvn 108 Grossdeutschland Panzergrenadier Dvn 14,
34 ist SS Panzergrenadier Rgt 79, 94, 104 2nd SS Panzergrenadier Rgt 94, 97, 234, 23 5 236-37 6th SS Panzergrenadier Rgt 105 6th Panzer Company 98 see also AFVs, German; Army Group Centre; Army Group South; Das Reich (DR); II SS Panzer Korps; Leibstandarte 312
INDEX SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH); Totenkopf (SS-T) Glantz, David 102, 103 Göring, Hermann 147 Greznoye 109 Guderian, Gen Heinz 30-31, 151, 153 Hausser, Ob Paul 40, 90, 97 hills: 213.9: 64, 65-66, 68 226.6: 94 241.6: 103-4, 109, 110 252.2: 93, 94, 96-97, 98-100, 23 5, 236-38, 241 252.4: 107 258.2: 108-9,233 Himmler, Heinrich 147 Hitler, Adolf 10,13 and Dnieper 136 and Donets offensive 69 and II SS Panzer Korps 123, 125-26, 171 and LSSAH 58,112,172 and Manstein 116 and pincer attack 36 and tanks 153 and Ukraine 147 homeland maintenance 21,23-25, 76-77, in-12, 151, 153 and II SS Panzer Korps 13,46,61 and Das Reich 44-45, 159 and LSSAH 56, 74, 158 and SS-T 132 Hoth, ColGen Hermann 36 inventories 12-13, 19-22, 43-45 Italy 20, 123, 126 К-werk (repair facilities) 24, 30 and Dnieper retreat 139, 151, 153 and Ukraine 147 Kalinin 105 Katukov, Gen Mikhail Efimovich 40 Kempf, Gen Werner 36 Kettle, Walter 99 Kharkov 13, 20, 27 and Army Group South 12 5-26 and counter-attack 128-32,134 and liberation 127 and tank strength 171 Kiev 143, 145, 148 map 146 King, Johan 93 Kirichenko, MajGen I. E 92, 96 Kirovograd 159-60 Kluge, FM Günther von 36 Knobelsdorff, Gen Otto von 40 Komsomolets state farm 102,108, 234, 235 Konev, Gen Ivan Stepanovich 36 Korosten 147,150,156 Kriuchenkin, Gen Vasily Dmitrievich 93 Kulikovo i о Kursk, battle of (1943) 10-11, 14, 27, 90-91, 114-15 Kutuzov, Mikhail 10 Lak, Martijn 14 Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) (SS Panzergrenadier Division) 14, 16, 17, 20 and 12 July 90 and AFV longevity 18 8—209 and AFV losses 46, 56, 73-74, 76-78, 170, 173 and AFV transfers 57-61
and AFVs 26-27, 30, 31-34, 41, 43.43-44 and artillery losses 79 and Donets River 68, 71 and Eastern Front 126,128 and inventories 21-22 and new deliveries 53-54 and Prokhorovka 93-94, 98-100, 101-4, 106-7, 108-13, 2 3 3-3 8 and repairs 120-23 313
THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA and Soviet AFVs 8 2 and strength 185 and Ukraine 145,147-48,150-51,, 156, 158-59, 160 and weaponry 34-35, 232 and Western Front 163 Leningrad 174 Lötzsch, Georg 102 LSSAH see Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) Luftwaffe: and daytime sorties 229 and Prokhorovka 99-100, 104 and reconnaissance photos 15, 16-17 and Stuka attacks 237 Malchow, OA Walter 99 Manstein, FM Erich von 27, 36, 40 and Dnieper 136 and Kharkov 129 and Kursk 114-15, 126 and Roland 116,123 maps: Army Group South retreat to the Dnieper 137-38 Eastern Front (1942—43) 28 eve of Operation Citadel 39 German Operation Citadel plan 37 II SS Panzer Korps advance 42-43 liberation of Kharkov 127 liberation of Kiev 146 liberation of western Ukraine 154-55,164 lower Dnieper 152 Myshuryn Rog bridgehead 140 Prokhorovka, battle of 95 Matyukhin, Eugene too Meldung (reports) 22, 58-61, 132 Mius River гу and counteroffensive 126,128 and offensive 74-76 and SS-T advance 67 Model, ColGen Walter 36, 38, 90 Mongols 10 Motor Transport Officer (MTO) 19, 20-21 4th Panzer Army 115-17 Museum o f Armoured Vehicles 241 Myshuryn Rog bridgehead 140,141, 142 Napoleon Bonaparte 10 Nehring, Gen Walther 123 Neu, Maj 115-16 Normandy 11,174 Oktiabrskiy state farm 79, 93, 97, 98, 107 Operation Citadel(1943) io-ii, 12-13, ։6, 30-34 and German losses 68-70, 72-78, 167-70, 172-73 and inventory 20 maps 37, 39 and Red Army 114-15 and southern pincer 3 5-36, 38, 40-41,43-45, 213-23, 226-28 and Soviet losses 81-87 operations: Advent (1943) 150-51 Kutuzov (1943) 38,107-8 Roland (1943) 107,108,115-16, 123-25 Rumyantsev
(1943) 126-33 see aho Operation Citadel (1943) photography 16-17, i75 176 Popov, Gen Maridan 38 Priess, Ob Hermann 90 Prokhorovka, battle of (1943) 10, 11-17, 93-94, 96-108, 233-39 and AFV losses 170 and inventory 20 map 95 3M
INDEX and museums 240-41 and opposing forces 90-93 and Red Army 175-77 and Tiger tank losses 108-13 Psel River 16, 40 Red Army 10-11 and counteroffensives 36,38, 40-41 and Dnieper 136, 141-42 and Kharkov 129, 132, 134 and Kev 143, 145 and Kursk 114-15 and losses 170 and Rotmistrov 90-92 and sorties 229 and strength 212-13 and Ukraine 145,147-48,156, 159-60 see abo AFVs, Soviet Red Army (units): 5 th Guards Tank Army 11-12, 35, 82-89, 105-6, 175-76 18th Tank Corps 10X-2 29th Tank Corps 16, 96, 98, 175-76, 235, 239 9th Guards Paratroop Dvn 93 25th Tank Bde 79,104-5, 240 170th Tank Bde 79,101,102-4, 239 181st Tank Bde 79,101,102, 103-4, 235, 2-39-4° Ribbentrop, Ob Rudolf von 94, 96, 97, 98-99 Rokossovsky, Gen Konstantin Konstantinovich 36 Romania 165 Rotmistrov, Gen Pavel 12, 88-89, 90-92 and German AFV losses 168 and Prokhorovka 94 and Tiger tanks 108 Rzhev salient 27 semi-tracked armoured personnel carriers (SPWs) 34 Shumilov, Gen Mikhail Stepanovich 40 Skvortsov, Maj'Gen B. Μ. 91 social media 11 Sokolovsky, Gen Vasily 3 8 Sonderverbände see Das Reich; Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler; Totenkopf South-West Front 136,141 Soviet Union see AFVs, Soviet; Red Army; Stavka spare parts 111-12,135,153 Speer, Albert 153 SS-T see Totenkopf (SS-T) Stalin, Joseph 88-89 Stalingrad, battle of (1942) 27 Stalinsk state farm 104-5 Stavka (Soviet High Command) 40, 90, 136 Steppe Front 36, 38, 40, 123, 176 and Dnieper 136,141 Storozhevoye Woods 16,105,108 tanks, German see AFVs, German tanks, Soviet see AFVs, Soviet Teterevino 108,233-34 ‘Third Battlefield of Russia’ museum 108, 240, 241
Timewatch (documentary series) 14 Totalverluste reports in Totenkopf (SS-T) (SS Panzergrenadier Division) 14, 16, 20 and AFV losses 46, 48, 53, 56, 68-70, 72-77, 80, 171-72, 174 and AFV numbers 135-36,139 and AFVs 26-27,29-30,31-34, 43-44 and Dnieper 142 and inventories 21-22, 62-64, 68 and Kharkov 126,128-29, 130-32 and Mius advance 67 ЗИ
THE PANZERS OF PROKHOROVKA and new deliveries 55 and Prokhorovka 93-94, 105, 107, 108-10 and repairs 117-20 and strength 186-87 and Ukraine 165 and weaponry 3 5 Ukraine 147-48, 150-51, 165 maps 154-55, 164 and western liberation 156, 158-60 see also Dnieper River; Kiev Vasilevka 109 Vasilevsky, Marshal Aleksandr Mikhailovich 105 Vatutin, Gen Nikolai Fedorovich 38, 40, M3 Victory Monument ‘Belfry’ 241 Vinnitsa 147 Voronezh Front 38, 40-41, 93, 115 and Dnieper 136,141 , weaponry, German 17, 26—27 anti-tank guns 34-3 5 assault guns 61-62, 232 and losses 79-80,210—11 weaponry, Soviet 232 Wehrmacht 10-11,212-13; see abo German Army; Luftwaffe Weiss, Gen Walter-Otto 3 8 Werlin, Jakob 24 West Front 90,136 Western Front it, 38, 163 Wittmann, Michael 101,104 Wochenmeldung über Panzer und Sturmgeschülzlage Stand (weekly panzer and assault gun status report) 48,49,52-53, 55-56, 61-64 and Kharkov 129, 132 and losses 167, 169-70 Yasnaya Polyana 105 Yegorov, Anatoly 176 Zamulin, Valeriy 82,88 and Prokhorovka 97, 99, 100 Zeitzier, Gen Kurt 36 Zetterling, Niklas 172-73 Zhadov, Gen Aleksey Semenovich 93 Zhitomir Bsysrisíh® 147,156, 158 |
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spelling | Wheatley, Ben Verfasser (DE-588)1138257095 aut The panzers of Prokhorovka the myth of Hitler's greatest armoured defeat Ben Wheatley Oxford Osprey Publishing 2023 316 Seiten, 48 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulikovo, where the Mongols were defeated in 1380; Borodino, where Russian troops slowed Napoleon's Grande Armee before Moscow in 1812; the third is Prokhorovka. This is widely described as the most critical tank battle of the Second World War, which saw the annihilation of Hitler's elite Panzer force in the largest armoured clash in history and left Hitler with no alternative but to halt Germany's offensive against the Kursk salient. Victory, on 12 July 1943, at Prokhorovka over Hitler's vaunted SS troops has traditionally been described as a turning point in the Second World War. The Panzers of Prokhorovka challenges this narrative. Unternehmen Zitadelle (DE-588)4098857-0 gnd rswk-swf Kursk, Battle of, Russia, 1943 World War, 1939-1945 / Tank warfare Tank warfare Russia 1939-1945 Unternehmen Zitadelle (DE-588)4098857-0 s DE-604 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 978-1-4728-5907-5 Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=034295084&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=034295084&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Literaturverzeichnis Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=034295084&sequence=000005&line_number=0003&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Register // Gemischte Register |
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title | The panzers of Prokhorovka the myth of Hitler's greatest armoured defeat |
title_auth | The panzers of Prokhorovka the myth of Hitler's greatest armoured defeat |
title_exact_search | The panzers of Prokhorovka the myth of Hitler's greatest armoured defeat |
title_exact_search_txtP | The panzers of Prokhorovka the myth of Hitler's greatest armoured defeat |
title_full | The panzers of Prokhorovka the myth of Hitler's greatest armoured defeat Ben Wheatley |
title_fullStr | The panzers of Prokhorovka the myth of Hitler's greatest armoured defeat Ben Wheatley |
title_full_unstemmed | The panzers of Prokhorovka the myth of Hitler's greatest armoured defeat Ben Wheatley |
title_short | The panzers of Prokhorovka |
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title_sub | the myth of Hitler's greatest armoured defeat |
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