Battle of Kursk - The Brutal Soviet-Nazi Tank War

Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: Start streaming today and watch the documentary “Tanks“ and the rest of MagellanTV’s science and history collection: _________ After the heavy losses sustained by the opening of Operation Barbarossa, the Wehrmacht reached a decisive turning point. They could wait and be pummeled by an imminent Soviet offensive or take the upper hand and launch its own operation to encircle and subjugate the Red Army. The decision came to Adolf Hitler, and the dictator opted to bet all of his armored forces and put together a decisive offensive at Kursk codenamed Operation Citadel. However, the British let the Soviets know of the exact dates and locations where the offensive would take place, and thus the Battle of Kursk began. More than 2 million men, 7,000 tanks, and over 4,000 aircraft would participate in the world’s
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