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Originally posted by General der Infanterie Friedrich H:
It was a German defeat and therefore a Soviet victory. The loser is that who surrendered or withdraw the battle field. We did it. But Kursk is being so much overrated here. It was not at all the turning point of the war and not the largest defeat of the Wehrmacht.
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Now I have spent a little more time reading this long thread. Question about this statement:
Why do you think it is overrated? It was not the turning point in a sense that before the Germans might have won, after they were lost. But at least it was the turning point that the Wehrmacht never got the initiative again in the east... and it meant that the Russians would achieve their victory even without western help, sooner or later, which before Kursk was not sure at all.
[ 21. November 2003, 02:05 AM: Message edited by: KnightMove ]