文档介绍：TRANSLATED, EDITED, AND ANNOTATED WITH NEW MATERIAL BY
Steven H. Newton
KURSK
THE GERMAN VIEW
Eyewitness Reports of Operation Citadel
by the manders
Translated, edited, and annotated
by Steven H. Newton
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
PART 1
Strategic Analysis of Operation Citadel
Eyewitness Accounts by manders
1 Operation Citadel Overview
by General of Infantry Theodor Busse
APPENDIX 1A German Military Intelligence and Soviet Strength,
July 1943 27
Armeeabteilung Kempf 29
by Colonel General Erhard Raus
APPENDIX 2A Order of Battle: Corps Raus (Special Employment),
2 March 1943 58
APPENDIX 2B Order of Battle: Armeeabteilung Kempf,
5 July 1943 61
Fourth Panzer Army 65
by General of Infantry Friedrich Fangohr
APPENDIX SA Order of Battle: Fourth Panzer Army, 12 March 1943 89
APPENDIX SB Order of Battle: Fourth Panzer Army, 5-6 July 1943 92
Ninth Army and Second Panzer Army 97
by Major General Peter von der Groeben
APPENDIX 4A Order of Battle: Ninth Army, 5 July 1943 120
APPENDIX 4B O