Wehrmacht military operations on the Kursk Bulge (1943)

German motorcades advancing to the front line near Belgorod in 1943. German officers studying the terrain through binoculars as supply column trucks move past.

Views of the front line of Soviet troops, German soldiers in trenches and shelters.

German signalmen setting up a landline telephone line.

The face of a German soldier smoking a cigarette in a trench before the offensive on July 5, 1943. Views of the front line of Soviet troops, German soldiers in a trench awaiting the end of artillery preparation.

The face of a German telephone operator.

A salvo of German rocket launchers.

A German tank unit before the offensive.

Soldiers at a dugout in a trench.

German planes approach the target, soldiers in the trenches watch the actions of the Luftwaffe.

The fall and explosion of a downed plane, a column of smoke rises.

A salvo of German rocket launchers.

Medics carry out a wounded German tanker.

Tank repair.

Tanks on the battlefield (panorama).

German tanks advancing to the front line.

Commander inside a German tank.

View from the tank's observation slit.

German tanks attack the positions of Soviet troops.

View of a field with advancing tanks.

A German tanker opens the side hatch.

A T-34 tank drives past a burning German tank.

Burning Soviet and German tanks, corpses of tankers near the tanks.

A German tank commander gives commands.

Tanks in action on the battlefield.

Panorama of burning Soviet tanks, a German tanker poses for the camera.

German artillery crews fire, shells explode on the front line of Soviet troops.

German armored vehicles during the offensive on the Kursk Bulge.

German rangers observe the enemy.

A Soviet tank with troops on its armor emerges from the forest.

A German soldier hits Soviet tanks with a grenade launcher (staging).

German infantry fighting Soviet tanks.

Views of parts of a destroyed and burning Soviet tank.

German rangers inspect penetrations in the armor of a Soviet tank.

The face of a German paratrooper.