The Wehrmacht at the beginning of the Battle of Kursk (1943)

View of the battlefield near Kursk in July 1943. Episode of an air battle.

A German bomber flies by.

Views of the battlefield, an air battle over the steppe.

Panorama of the broken first line of defense of the Red Army.

A dive bomber approaches the target.

Bomb explosions on the positions of the Red Army.

Aircraft approach the target.

Smoke from fires over the steppe.

German tankers ride, sitting on the turret of a tank, a puppy sits next to them.

German infantry marches in a chain across the field.

A crew of a German light artillery gun fires.

A column of German armored vehicles on the road.

German heavy tanks and self-propelled guns fire from a stop.

Soviet tanks are hit, German tank destroyers with grenades in their hands in positions.

German infantry during combat.

A burning Soviet tank.

Panorama of the battlefield with burning tanks.

Wounded Red Army soldiers being captured.

German soldiers escort prisoners to the rear.

Movement of columns of Soviet prisoners of war.

Panorama of a column of Soviet prisoners of war (shot in 1941).

Movement of Wehrmacht armored vehicles along the roads at the beginning of the offensive on the Kursk Bulge.

Panorama of the road and captured Soviet positions of the first line of defense (top).

The offensive of German troops near Kursk (top).

A German general talks with tank crews.

Actions of one of the Wehrmacht units during a Soviet air raid.

German map of the Orel-Kursk salient.

A salvo of German six-barreled mortars.

German tanks before the attack.

Actions of Soviet and German aviation.

Artillery preparation.

German soldiers remove barbed wire entanglements before the offensive.

German assault groups of panzergrenadiers move along passages in minefields.

Soldiers of the assault group lie down under fire.

A German tank goes on the attack.

German soldiers during combat.

German map of the Orel-Kursk salient with the designation of the immediate tasks (animation).

Soviet attack aircraft are flying, German anti-aircraft gunners are firing.

Faces of German soldiers watching the progress of the air battle.

Episodes of the air battle, firing of the anti-aircraft gun.

The fall of the shot down plane, explosion.

Panorama of the German tank unit before the attack in the steppe.

The work of Wehrmacht signalers.

The movement of the German tank column.

Heavy tanks "Tiger" go on the attack.

Panzergrenadier unit on the offensive.

German motorcyclists ride along the road.