Just 7 Tanks Left — Then Came the Red Wave

Prochorowka, 12. Juli 1943: fünf Männer in einem stählernen Kasten, eine Anhöhe, die gehalten werden muss – und eine Welle aus T-34, die über den Kamm rollt. Der Tag der größten Panzerschlacht des Zweiten Weltkriegs, erzählt aus der Enge eines einzigen Panzer IV. Aus der Perspektive eines SS-Unterscharführers, Panzerkommandant in der 6. Kompanie der Leibstandarte, erleben wir den 12. Juli 1943 Minute für Minute: das Warten im Morgengrauen, den Sturm der sowjetischen Panzer die Höhe hinab, das Chaos im Rauch und den Panzergraben, an dem sich der Angriff der 5. Garde-Panzerarmee selbst zerschlägt. Kein Heldenepos, sondern der Krieg so, wie ihn die Männer in den Panzern erlebten – und ein Blick hinter den jahrzehntelangen Mythos von Prochorowka, den die jüngere Forschung gründlich revidiert hat. Diese Erzählung ist eine fiktionale Rekonstruktion auf Grundlage gesicherter historischer Quellen und Augenzeugenberichte. Sie dient ausschließlich der geschichtlichen Bildung und dem Gedenken und verherrlicht weder den Krieg noch das nationalsozialistische Regime. #Geschichte #ZweiterWeltkrieg #Ostfront #Prochorowka #Kursk #Panzerschlacht 📚 Quellen & weiterführende Literatur: Karl-Heinz Frieser (Hrsg.): Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Band 8 – Die Ostfront 1943/44 (MGFA/DVA, 2007) Roman Töppel: Kursk 1943 – Die größte Schlacht des Zweiten Weltkriegs (Schöningh, 2017) Valeriy Zamulin: Demolishing the Myth – The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943 (Helion, 2011) Ben Wheatley: The Panzers of Prokhorovka (Osprey, 2023); „A Visual Examination of the Battle of Prokhorovka", Journal of Intelligence History 18/2 (2019) Niklas Zetterling & Anders Frankson: Kursk 1943 – A Statistical Analysis (Frank Cass, 2000) George M. Nipe: Blood, Steel & Myth – The II. SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka (2011) David M. Glantz & Jonathan House: The Battle of Kursk (1999) Augenzeugenbericht Rudolf von Ribbentrop (6. Panzerkompanie, LSSAH) Music: 'Decoherence' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

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