Kursk Defeat - 1943 | Movietone Moment | 13 July 18

On this day in 1943 the greatest tank battle in history ended with Russia’s defeat of Germany at Kursk. Here is Movietone’s coverage of some of the events.
Hitler's attack in Russia came just when many commentators were saying there would be German offensive this summer.
Cut story - Map of Russia shows Kursk, & Oral, & neighbouring districts. Elevated shots of German tanks, down road out of camera. German troops rush across fields, explosions of heavy artillery, German tanks into camera. Heavy artillery firing. Stukas taking off in formation, & in flight, MS of undercarriage shows bomb doors open & bombs leaving plane, masses of incendiaries, & numbers of small bombs falling, hits on targets registered. Soviet soldiers crawling along the ground, under barbed wire, CU Russian officer, artillery firing, Russian soldiers pass shells, various shots of heavy artillery firing, from various positions, wooded sections, field etc. Shots of wrecked tanks. Shots of Russian artillery hit, finishing on heavy artillery firing.
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[@drivewaynats3696]

"Dwarfing even the tank battles in the western desert" - the commentator actually said that

[@percybyssheshelly]

Driveway Nats So what are you trying to say? His use of the English language was just fine. Go back to school.

[@Deguar75]

Multiple imagen film no battle Kursk , 1940 and 1941 ... video good thanks

[@MrDaiseymay]

The reason the Russians KNEW in advance, that the attack was coming, was because the Genius people of Bletchly Park, UK, had read all the Nazis plans and order's weeks before, by breaking their ENIGMA Messages, and passed it all on. NOT JUST THAT EITHER--but all the military plans of attack, how many troops, where placed, how many tanks and artillery pieces, and where the Nazis where forming them up. It kind-of helped eh? But no doubt at all, the Russkies were extremely brave fighter's, and paid a huge price too. Like Stalingrad, this was a war winning battle. From then on, the Nazis fought a rearguard action, all the way back to Berlin.

[@ang47]

it helped a lot. these communist pigs would have lost the war without US supplies and UK intelligence

[@hubertwalters4300]

@@ang47 Definitely

[@sabrinanova949]

@@ang47 What were the role of USA and England to help USSR to win the battle of Stalingrad ?

[@ang47]

@@sabrinanova949 USA - supplied tanks, fuel, food, trucks, clothes, shoes. UK - broke into german transmissions and basically knew exactly where they will attack. But that was at kurks not stalingrad

[@sabrinanova949]

@@ang47 I know that USA lend Lease everything to Sovyet Union. But tanks??? I doubt it.

[@apvenczel]

the molotov-ribbentrop pact is not looking so bad now eh boys?

[@ДмитрийХарченко-м4т]

Там мой дед погиб....

[@ilgisnurkaev6942]

Царствие небесное !

[@rolandherzog3251]

they started a war without petrol????

[@alexmanly8666]

A days after Stalingrad into new battle.

[@ndyx]

GOTT MIT UNS

[@reginaldmcnab3265]

A big country vs a small country!

[@dnickaroo3574]

In 1941, most thought that Nazi Germany was most likely to win. They had defeated the combined Forces of Britain and France in 6 weeks in 1940.

[@reginaldmcnab3265]

@@dnickaroo3574 had the attack in Russia not delayed by about six weeks because germany had to help Mussolini in Greece and had the Finns closed off the blockade (on The North) around Stalingrad as was required, Stalingrad was almist certain to have fallen. And the enemy had broken German enigma code and therefore were able to read Germany's most secrite messages.

[@rogerborroel4707]

small country foolishly invaded BIG country...the dummies!

[@kanthector]

Germany couldn't win a small island England. How cud they think of challenging a colossus like russia. Fools.

[@MartinDRand]

Jayakanth---- The Soviet Union was enormous (one sixth of all the land on earth, running through many time zones). It's population was also enormous. It was an equally strict dictatorship. It was a greater industrial power than Germany, and had all the war resources, particularly oil. It had deathly cold and a world of mud. German trains (needed urgently to move tanks and troops) couldn't run on Soviet wider gauge tracks. Quite a few high up German military people knew it was a gamble. The Nazis who sacrificed that generation of boys, had little to lose. They spent the whole war sitting comfortably on their fat asses, pursuing their careers, and swallowing their beloved leader's propaganda garbage.

[@ang47]

stupid pajeet. russia almost collapsed. England was only saved by its navy

[@RomanPrag]

@@ang47 Russia collapsed? In your universe only

[@ang47]

@@RomanPrag you're a brainwashed russian, what can anyone expect from you, other than "USSR Iis the greatest". Anything else will land you in the gulag or jail. USSR almost collapsed, the only thing that saved it was the oil and USA

[@ang47]

@@renattasbolat4532 You don't need to read soljenitzn to know there were American tanks at kursk

[@rogerwilliams2902]

Dont forget the part Bletchley Park played in warning Stalin about the planned attack by the Germans.

[@dnickaroo3574]

The Soviets trusted their own Intelligence.