Greatest Tank Battles | Season 1 | Episode 10 | The Battle of Kursk: Southern Front

neither the British nor the Americans grasped the art of mechanized warfare that was developed after ww1
This was not true for the Russians. but the problem of the russians was that stalin purged his generals and made the russian army almost leaderless.This is why the russians had early defeats in 1941.Alredy in 1942 many generals were appointed and we immediately saw the massive change

"Russian" motherland?

German had no chance of winning from the start! Russians had more men, tanks, …

Too bad the Germans didn’t win!!!!

Most people believe that dying in a tank is like a hit going through armor and you are done. Wrong, most tankers are dying by burning alive, horrible death. God rest the souls, both german and Russians who fought and died there.

some of these tanks are blowing up today in ukraine as rusky arse is toasted

Президент Владимир Путин произносит речь по случаю 80-летия Курской битвы во Второй мировой войне, после чего посещает концерт.

Nice.

You would think that there were only Tigers and T34s on the battlefield.

The battle was a stupid idea. The Soviets knew exactly what the germans were going to do and planned accordingly. The Germans knew this and went ahead anyway. Madness. This went against everything the had accomplished beforehand. With that said, the Germans did give a good account of themselves. The soviets had 6-8X the number of of losses the germans did. Thats pretty embarrassing considering they were on the defensive, had plenty of quality defensive positions already prepared, and had superiority in numbers.

Some of the unsung heroes of this battle are the German mechanic teams who went out every night to repair and recover "knocked out" panzers. They truly worked wonders getting vehicles back into the fight.

it is nonsense and a lie that there were 500 German tanks and 700 Russian tanks. The truth is that the Russians had 2,500 tanks and the Germans only 400, the Germans destroyed over 2,000 Russian tanks and lost about 100, and had to retreat due to the Allied landing on Sicily. And the most powerful comments to me are from the German dead man, the story of how he destroyed from 3 to 7 Russian tanks, while the Russian veteran is tearing up with emotions as he tried to destroy the German tank but did not succeed, and as far as costuming and computer rendering is concerned, one big zero showing how the T34 with a smaller Bullet destroys the German Tiger tank, while the German bullet with 88 millimeters only snipes from the T34 bravo computer scene net zero

What a stupid documentary

Очень хороший документальный фильм!

No one wages war like the Europeans its how they conquered the world.

The only way to stop the SS Was to Ram them Bloody Russians Stalin bolshavic Zionist Regime dogs 🐕

long live Deutschland 😎

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Goood deeem what a battle!! I think the must destructive tank battle ever!!

History has always proven that the Defenders of one's Homeland will always fight more vicious than the oppressors

I originally watched it on a dmax tv re-upload (german version/panzerschlachten)

great 20 minute vid , shame it wasn't the full 47 mins , what with the constant repeating !!

SS panzer corps 330 tahks vs 5 Guard tank army 500 tanka
Near Prokhoeovka...the image of the German corpal running around around (directing fire) without
Any Pants...his pants got blown off

I love the Windows-98 graphics. Excellent choice.

Both sides fought for the psychopath running their country.

That poor guy at the end. All these guys who fought keep their lost friends memories alive even in very old age.

It's impossible to imagine what these young men went through. I mean riding in a steel coffin, and shooting artillery at each other, sometimes at point blank is insane.

Prochorovka is a contrived propaganda victory for the Red Army. The German 2nd Panzer Corps lost 10 tanks to a counterattack by the Russian 5th Panzer Army Gwardi, which lost 300 tanks that day. Somebody say it's a victory.

The Rus is unconquerable!!!

Mark my words: the ending of this video is exactly how the Russo-Ukraine war will end.

Note how much more intelligent the average German is compared to the Russian.
Not intelligent enough however to recognize the possibility that their leaders were betraying Germany.
(Himmlers niece got married to an Israeli post 1948.....yes it is true...you can do a bit of extrapolation on that because you sure as hell wont be allowed to do this on "free speech" You Tube.

Stupid people with stupid machines doing stupid things

Rubbish. Jeez, why not simply tell the story and leave out all the urgent orchestration and manic drumming. Then there is the tedious recapitulation after each ad break (or no ad break in this country and it therefore counts as padding) as if your audience is quite unable to remember what on earth the video was about just a few minutes ago Had to give up, hopeless, a complete waste of yours and my time. Thumbs down .

SOO FUNNY HILTER HAD ALLL THESE DIFFERENT GROUPS WAFFFEN WAFFELS DEAD HEADS ELITE THIS N ELITE THAT,,,,REALLY? SOO WHAT DID THEY DO CATCH BULLETS FIRED AT EM AN THROW IT BACK? SPECIAL/ELITE MY ASS IF SHOT THEY DIE LIKE ANY SOLDIERS

I wonder if Operation Citadel had been a success what would that have really changed in the grand scheme of things.

Russians knew everything about Kursk attack...İt was not surprise and blitzkrieg fails then...England given information to Russia about dat attack cuz they broke german enigma codes ...

I have never heard the word the word free or freedom in all of these WW2 Docs. The Russian people sacrificed everything,for Mother Russia. For what? The right to keep STALIN? Or live under the rule of HITLER? How on any level is that even in the neighborhood of fair? Second Russian to First Russian upon their volunteering to fight the Huns in 1941: "Alrighty! Sorry I am late. I had to finish my Smirnoff and tie my shoe. Let's commence to killing us some NAZIS. Give me a gun" #1 Russian: " Hey man,we only got one. We will have to share. You go first." #2 Russian: "How will I know when it's your turn?"

As a Russian🇷🇺, I am very pleased that your Canadian historians are making documentaries about the great battles of our grandfathers, they made an excellent film👍. It warms the soul even more that such a film will be shown to children in your schools🇨🇦 and the feat of our ancestors will be known all over the world). I wish peace to all.

This documentary is superb. Well done.

The majority of German generals thought that even if they succeeded, Kursk would have been a pyrrhic victory and they couldn't have exploited it. MOST of them thought it was just going to be an utter failure and just more of Hitler's idiocy. It went completely against EVERYTHING German doctrine taught. The first rule was to attack where the enemy was weakest. Kursk was the strongest point of the Russian lines.

July 1943 Russian Village

Did Stalin release German POWs after WW2 ?

Despite seeing several Kursk docos I still dont understand it one of the most complicated battles in history

Yeah, one of the reasons why Germany didn't last longer in the war was because Hitler was the one who was calling the shots, he was not a tactician, if he would have listened to his well trained generals he would have lasted longer and executed more thought out tactics. Hell of a tank battle though, R.I.P to men on both sides.

Fantastic Series. Thank you so much!

this was nothing compared to the Gulf war tanks conflict , but there the coalition got obsessed with the airstrikes, weeks and weeks of bombing of the Iraqi tanks/ armed vehicles then you can hear the Americas .. Yessss!! the Abrams Is undefeatable , Iraqi run away, We are the greatest cowherds in the history of wars!!