Bravo!General! Kursk was nothing more than an attempt at "keeping face" with Hitler's allies so they would'nt "bail out".To send all this new tanks,men into battle to shorten the front lines a hundred miles was a waste.Simply put,Hitler knew that to keep Italy,Romania etc, from quitting,he had to start winning.To think he could just encircle that little bulge in his lines would bring stability to the line.Was his intelligence that bad or did he choose not to believe it?That the Russians were getting ready to unload on the Germans.He was a believer in his "super weapons"though.FramerT.

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