Hi Erich,

If Kursk was not important I should like to ask what was, as Op. Zitadelle was the only major operation the Germans could set up for 1943.

I am fully aware of the brilliant performance of the 2nd SS PzKorps, absolutely no doubt this was the outstanding formation in the field; however as one swallow does not the Spring make, one has to take the entire horizon into context.

9th Army in the North simply could not overcome the Soviet defense so they were limited to a dozen kms advance and stopped there to be later hammered in by a Sov. offensive simultaneous with Prokhorovka.

Magnificent though II SS PK was, the rest A.Grp. South formations were at least unable to sustain the same rates of advance, and I doubt one single PzKorps would be able to win the war by itself, especially as they were the tip of one pincer while the other pincer did not exist any longer and the other formations were lagging behind.

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Bah!