In the summer of 1943, the Waffen SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler rebuilt in the villages around Kharkov, drilling for a single mission: smash the Kursk salient and force the war back in Germany’s favor ...
In July 1943, Germany’s elite Panzer and Waffen SS units launched Operation Citadel to break Soviet defenses at Kursk. Instead, they drove straight into a massive fortified belt designed to stop them ...