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Kursk Bloody Battle 1943 - Курская битва.Part 1/2

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Channel: HISTORY- NEWS · 2011 · Education

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Kursk as a whole demonstrated the failure of Blitzkrieg against a pre-prepared, flexible and multiply redundant strategy of defense in depth. Well-advised months in advance that the attack would fall on the neck of the Kursk salient, the Soviets designed a system to slow, redirect, exhaust and progressively attrit the powerful German panzer spearheads by forcing them to attack through a vast interconnected web of minefields, pre-sighted artillery fire zones, and concealed anti-tank strongpoints comprising eight progressively spaced defense lines. 250 km deep—more than 10 times deeper than the vaunted Maginot Line—and featuring a better than 1:1 ratio of anti-tank guns to attacking vehicles, it was by far the most statistically formidable defensive works ever constructed. It eventually proved to be more than three times the depth necessary to contain the furthest extent of the German attack.

When the German forces had exhausted themselves against the defences, the Soviets responded with their own counter-offensives, which allowed the Red Army to retake Orel and Belgorod on 5 August and Kharkov on 23 August, and push back the Germans across a broad front.

Though the Red Army had success in winter, this was the first successful strategic Soviet summer offensive of the war. The model strategic operation earned a place in war college curricula.The Battle of Kursk was the first battle in which a Blitzkrieg offensive had been defeated before it could break through enemy defences and into its strategic depths.
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En el verano de 1943, tras la derrota de Stalingrado, las tropas germanas lanzaron un ataque en torno a la ciudad de Kursk en el que participaron más de 900.000 hombres y 2700 tanques.
Los soviéticos supieron maniobrar hábilmente resistiendo la embestida alemana y contraatacando victoriosamente tras el momento cúlmen de la batalla a mediados de julio de 1943.

La batalla de Kursk fue la mayor batalla de tanques de la historia y en ella participaron dos millones de soldados, 6000 tanques y más de 2000 aviones. Marcó un momento decisivo pues puso fin a la capacidad ofensiva de las tropas alemanas en el frente oriental y abrió el camino a las grandes ofensivas soviéticas de los años 1944 y 1945

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