World War II: The Battle of Kursk - Full Documentary
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The tidal wave of the German advance had lost momentum when it broke against the outskirts of Moscow; the cold Russian winter had saved the city.
Now the two most powerful armies on earth were to meet face to face in this ‘Clash of the Titans’. This is the true story of the greatest tank battle the world has ever seen, which resulted in the ultimate defeat of Hitler’s Panzers.
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Just the sheer number in all of this. Number of planes and tanks, artillery and men. Not just Kursk obviously. All that metal, steel and iron. Clothing and bombs, food, guns, ammunition, artillery rounds, fuel, spare parts, land mines, barbed wire, subs, battleships, oil bombs, rockets, concrete, etc etc etc etc. To me that war, adding all countries im conflict, the amount of supplies, is just mind boggling.
This was a massive strategic settlement battle. The largest in history. It ✋stopped the wehrmacht and changed world freedom!
More bombs ,rounds and explosives were used at kursk than in the entire conflicts against poland and France.
@@peterhamlinhamlin8908 yes it did but not for the better. We lost ww2 because we didn't liberate Europe we gave it to the communist. The communist are 1000 times worse than the nazis. Thats just the facts of the matter.
@@peterhamlinhamlin8908 it's by far not the only thing that stopped the germans. 1/3 of germanys forces were in the west.
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From the documentary: "One German tank commander stated: never I have seen before such an overwhelming strength of Russian numbers as on that day". These words explain the outcome of the Battle of Kursk.
I’ve seen everything TH-cam has to offer on WW2 but half this footage I’ve never seen. Crucial video
It's a mix of footages of various battles of war...not exactly of Kursk
The collection of real combat footage and men getting vaporized in their tanks is astounding and very sad... This is footage of thousands of men dieing in battle. My hats off to the combat videographers. Im sure many camera men died too.
I have seen most of this footage elsewhere before, but the combination of seeing it all together in one place, plus the incessant backround noise, gave me battle fatigue and I had to take breaks. What a brutal brawl of a battle.
The interviews with the German tankers were exceptional.
Battle fatigue? Lol. Its a film that has nothing to do with kursk.
@@willthorson4543 liar
@@davidcolley7714 😢😮😅😊
Battle fatigue sitting on your chaise longue in your negligee sipping a martini lol
@@willthorson4543 😅😅😅
The footage of the artillery duel 16:30-17:30 is unbelievable. It took my breath away.
If you are reading this and you have never experienced an artillery barrage... praise G_D!
Yeah, but it’s stock footage
@@ditto1958 what???
@@WorshipinIdols I believe what he's saying is that often in lots of ww2 documentaries footage from any time during the war (Not necessarily the same battle) if it's the same weapon they're showing off
The description of the artillery battle (at night) by a British soldier at El Alamein is incredible
During this battle my grandfather was in artillery, commanded a gun (from Russian side) destroyed a German tank, was awarded an order, was wounded twice. After he was heavily wounded (the second time) they send him to hospital and he was out of war.
Your GF is a hero.
And,did NSDAP win the battle?
So he got shot twice and got a medal for it?
@@DriveLaken Id assume the medal was for the tank kill. I’ll be honest if the soviets were handing out medals for just being shot, they would’ve had no brass for bullets
It's great that you know about your Grandfather serving in the Russian military. My wife says her Great Grandfather also served in the Russian Army. I'm pretty sure it's when Belarus was still called White Russia. We sometimes talk of learning to speak Russian, but keep putting it off. I think the issue is that, unless you immerse yourself in it, it's kind of a moot point. Maybe one of these days... Maybe.
My mother in law was 4 years old during the battle. Her mother escaped from the Gestapo during an air raid by the VVS. I feel really lucky to be able to talk to someone who was there, even as a child.
Amazing…was she driving a Tank at that early age..?
Watching these documentaries about World War 2 always humbles me.
My Gdanddad's brother started his WWII path on the Kursk Bulge in 1943 as a commander of the Soviet heavy tank (aka self-propelled artillery system) SU-152. A 19 year old boy, he just graduated from a military school, he'd never seen a battle in his life, and he was thrown right into the epicenter of that hell. He didn't like to talk about those days, but when he did, we, his grandkids, would listen to him with our eyes wide open...
It is a bit different, my friend was German and her grandfather was with 6th German army in Stalingrad, one of 105 000 captured and one of 5000 coming back home. According to my friend her grandfather had never talked about what he experienced there.
You're grand dad....may God bless his soul. Hope you are doing well.
Cheers to your forefathers, they saved the world from Nazism. As January 6rh, 2021 has shown us, the violence and hatred of fascist racial supremacist's and neo-nazi's has once again reared its ugly face.
@@rescyou What a baseless and frankly, stupid comparison.
@@rescyou Imagine using mass atrocities on a industrial scale and comparing them to a "riot" that left one dead. We all will have our biases, but that is just plain idiotic and terrible to compare the two.
The film is so good, it is both fascinating and horrifying. What an incredibly dense and DESTRUCTIVE battle. No more war!
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Tell that to the power hungry world leaders. The way they are itching for 3rd world war!
Seriously, this some of the best war footage ever filmed. It's a miracle ANYONE survived all of the shelling & fighting! Not all of it came from Kursk though, I saw some from the German attack on Ft Eben Emael in there, & I'm pretty sure there were no King Tiger II's at Kursk either, but still........😳
It never ceases to amaze, how civilian lives and treasure wasn't worth dirt, yet how important "public opinion" was when it came down to Hitler's wanting to prove something, or to regain respect.
This is a very poorly worded documentary. Kursk was a move to shorten defensive lines not as a public opinion stunt. That did not matter much. Some German generals would have preferred a more defensive stance and that would have been the correct choice, the Soviets have learned in 41-42 how to defend against a German attack but did not know yet how to attack.
@@andraslibal It was the biggest land battle within a small battlespace in which the Russians finally beat the 'summer' German - after cleaning the German's clock in the 2 previous winters ...Moscow (1941) ,,,,and Stalingrad (1942-43).
@@toffanful it was a near run thing looking at how many Russian Soviet lives it cost them one wonders if they’d have been better off if a better treaty with Germany lasted but that was obviously impossible since hitler was always going to attack Russia
Did anyone else's adrenaline start pumping during the battle? Hell on Earth...
I feel like I was eavesdropping, I almost overheard what he was saying.
it's a battle..you can't expect to hear anyone talking
I cant even imagine the Logistics involved..like getting fuel and ammo to the Tanks
@Marc Kunze Well I am too lazy to explain it but I will paste a dedicated channel to WW2 from tactics logistics technologies general staff mindset circumstances myths I am pretty sure you will find out the one with the logistics. th-cam.com/channels/K09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA.html
Enjoy
@John Beige his generals werent much better, I believe it was Halder who said something along the lines of, "I will not allow economic considerations hinder military movements" or some such
@Marc Kunze And horses, feeding them, horse shoes etc.
For each soldier in the field required more than a dozen support person along the way
Thats a sharp tank officer. Remembering all that tech spec. 50 60 years later. Great video
Allowing for the "necessary" use of stock footage, (including later/earlier tanks etc), this is a really good effort. I'm SO glad I'm alive now and not then. Absolute hell on earth.
22:39 . . Incredibly violent strike 😳
Excellent the film footage the description of logistics down to comparison and functionality of both the German and Russian tanks just superb. It’s unimaginable the horror those men went through but again total war and the prospect of complete and total annihilation is unfathomable thank you for bringing such history to us
Interesting documentary with some impressive film footage. Thanks for posting.
I've watched a lot of war videos but I've never seen one as good as this one. Great archive research & narration. Top notch!🌏🏆🇷🇺🇩🇪
What research? They piled all the random wartime footage up and added that horrible sound combined with the narrator’s voice. The King Tigers or Tigers II were first used in combat on July 1944 and the production of the T-34-85 didn’t begin until January 1944 while all of them you can miraculously see here apparently fighting each other at Kursk.
@@alexanderkolganov3654 you just described research. Just because you didn't like the video doesn't change that. Why don't you make your own comments instead of commenting on other people's opinions or don't you know what that means either?
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Wasn’t your comment meant to be commented upon, wise guy? I’m telling you there were no King Tigers and no T35/85 at Kursk whereas your “research” says otherwise. "Is any of this filtering through that little blue bonnet of yours?"
@@alexanderkolganov3654 keep it up lame brain and maybe someday you will get 1 like. Only an idiot would keep making stupid comments like yours that NOBODY likes. Troll someone else. Get a life moron
@@pauls.3400
Come on! Can you even read, jackass? From your nonsensical blabbering I can only assume that you hardly can, so you better do what you’re obviously good at - go fuck yourself.
As a British Light infantry veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan I believe we need to honour all the fallen no matter which country they fought and died for .
Thank you for sharing this footage
As the person who's ancestors survived The Holocaust, whose ancestors were fighting nazi in the Red Army as a descendant from former Soviet Union that suffered the most loses in this war,I dare to tell you are claiming rabish!
Nazi solders deserve nothing more then despise.And only those who are remorseful and shamefull for serving in the Verhmacht back those days are deserved rehabilitation!
@@slavonnord3210 try serving and fighting a war before you judge .
@@ritchieveteran1495
Those who served in Verhmacht though it will be like walking in park to conquer USSR and thought those who populate USSR are subhuman!
Your claim is pointless and unrelated!
@@slavonnord3210 spoken like a true civilian .
Truly incredible footage here, that I also have never seen before!
To think these poor soldiers, on both sides, had to endure this kind of punishment for days and nights! I have to admire their resolve and endurance to pain.
Absolutely brilliant documentary, once again. My heart goes out to all those who fell in this incredible war, the more I learn of which, the more amazed I become.
Having a number of friends of Russian origin throughout my lifetime, and having observed the general approach of the Russian fighters in the MMA octagon also, I am not surprised, though, to see that the German forces were rather astounded at their heart in combat, and their general ability to withstand even the greatest of hardships without retreat, surrender, or complaint.
Max respect to the people of Russia, in general, and for their incredible achievements in the face of such difficulties, and the staunch response that they displayed in regard to the Nazi attack on their homeland in WW2, culminating in the most remarkable counter attack, that took them to the gates of Berlin, and the eventual planting of their own flag therein, in place of the Swastika, in 1945.
Lest we forget.
It sure was a war of Good against Evil ...
Evil won!!
@@nigelbrown8319 I hope you're not suggesting that the Germans were 'the good side' !!!
I would suggest that, in any war, "Evil" benefits, regardless of who officially won the war
@@nigelbrown8319 Think much?
Germany is the GOAT
While I appreciate your candor, the Russians would have been annihilated without American (and British) supplies. That was the difference that saved them. Not heart. Numbers and much more critical equipment thanks to Uncle Sam.
Incredible footage to go along with incredible narration!! Well done!
Spectacular documentary. Great job 🎖
Kursk , like the Battle of the Bulge, is so large and entails so many units on both sides in so many locations. a narrative reader loses his way quickly. I readily agree with everyone below that this documentary is THE very best I have seen on this battle...and there is an order of battle given that is easy to comprehend. While the overall narration is excellent, the German veterans being interviewed are SUPERB in the detail and kinds of detail they remember. Along with footage I have never seen before, this video is a real window into brief moments of this battle....the 75 plus yrs. evaporate and you almost feel the Katyusha rockets from Stalin's Organs screaming down on you, forty-eight 6 -1/2" warheads in 10 seconds.
An excellent documentary. Never saw such a visceral account of the Battle of Kursk. Well done!
@Hippity Hoppity Thanks Hippety Hoppity. The word "documentary" is one of my favorites. :-D
Absolutely incredible .... , I could not imagine how loud that would have been ....
How sad those young men and woman! So sorry for all of them and there families..... just everyone that lived through that .....
I love the way that the narrator and the battle sounds are completely overlapping with good sense to bring your close to the action
it makes it too difficult to hear the narrator, i couldnt finish the video...
@@RobertLRyan activate the CC
Who tf is your sound engineer?
You need to turn the background sounds up - I can still hear the narrator.
yea the balance is really poor, someone should remix this project so it's listenable
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@@bsabjarne And me😜😜😜
I agree background sounds disproportionately LOUD.
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Best documentary I have ever watched.Period. I will subscribe to these documentaries.Well done!
War is hell and that battle proves it.
La batalla decisiva que cambió el curso de la guerra fue Stalingrado. Por eso los americanos han tratado siempre de quitar méritos al ejército ruso silenciando que fueron precisamente éstos los que en realidad ganaron la II Guerra mundial: Por su valor, sacrificio y heroismo, así como por la cantidad inagotable de sus soldados.
La lucha en Stalingrado fue cuerpo a cuerpo, sin espacios libres ni posiciones fijas, y en esa forma de combatir, el ruso era superior al alemán, que necesitaba espacios abiertos , organización y orden en el combate.
Esta victoria épica, bañada en sangre y lágrimas, ha llenado hasta hoy a Rusia de orgullo y amor a la patria.
After your first sentence everything you said was nonsense.
Russian soldiers would have been barefoot throwing rocks at german tanks without America and it's really that simple.
Marshall zukov pointed out that Russia could have never biult its reserve armys or even its tanks without lendlease.
Stalin said if America had not tied down germanys best divisions in Africa stalingrad would have been lost and with it the war because Germany would have taken russias oil.
Germany had a kill ratio over russian soldiers of 10 to 1 until the last hear and even then it was still 2 to 1 while Germany was running out of EVERYTHING! Germany could have beaten any army in the world then AND DID UNTIL THEY BEGAN TO RUN OUT OF GAS and became seriously outnumbered.
The official reason Hitler pulled out of KURSK was because he pulled his spear head ss units out of KURSK and sent them to italy to stop America from over running italy.
America took out the JAPANESE, the Italian CAMPAIGN and the vichy french.
America destroyed the luftwaffe, the kregsmarine, the german economy and most of Germanys oil supplys.
America tied up 1/3 of germanys forces including millions of german soldiers. America erased entire armys from the battlefield.
All Russians had to do is march west eating American food ,driving American veihicles and fight germans who ran out of gas and ammo.
The Soviets were fighting for their survival. America came to help. Why bring America down like that. Your disdain for America is very transparent man!
Absolutely terrifying. Guaranteed there would be a few more deep holes in the ground with me at the bottom of them Can't imagine how the men were able to accomplish what they did.Brave men on both sides.Lest we forget.
Stalingrad was the turning point, and Kursk put the nails on the coffin of German defeat.
@Tecumseh Not everyone believes so. Surely there are three main factors : Germany fighting against three countries that were in fact, empires : 1) Great Britain 1/3 of the globe,
2) The USSR. The most mobilised nation in ww2
3) the USA.
I've just completed seeing this video today..Why is there no lessons we learn from such wars ..As a young boy.. i thought war is glorious..no longer now
Incredible footage. Privileged to view it. War is hell.
This is the best western documentary about eastern front.
Wow, you haven't seen to many, I have seen dozens, this was one of the worst ones.
Most of the scenes have nothing to do with Kursk. Just a montage of unrelated scenes from different time periods of WW2 and lots of film clips from the Soviet movie, they made about Kursk.
If you really want to find out about the eastern front in WWII, watch the lectures given by people like Col. David Glantz, Dr Jonathan House and Steve Zaloga - especially the first two. This was a good display of war footage and not a lot else.
Good stuff and I watch a lot of docu’s on the subject , your channel portrays this subject so well and the ‘witness statements’ are second to none 👏 well done appreciated your effort 🙏
Great documentary, thanks!!! 👍 👍 👍
I m surprised that somebody came out alive after all that fire , bloody hell!!
How rude of a war to interrupt this documentary
OMG these war footage of the battle are giving me nightmare 😢
War is hell, may god bless those brave souls who died on both sides in this butchery.
Georg Murlowski (age 20, from Hindenburg), my mothers baby brother was killed in this battle, his body and that of his brothers Max and August were never found and remain missing in action. They were 3 of 5 brothers that my mom lost during WW2. I pray for them and the 50-80 million souls that lost their lives, caused by a fanatic, megalomaniac murderer who had an illusion that continues to plague our world again
May your uncle's rest in peace. RIP to all who fought and died in World War 2
I am sorry my grandfader was killd in stalingrad never fond RIP to all sides
My relative Michael Wittmann was in this battle and survived. He was killed in northern France in the summer of 1944. I only know of him through historical and ancestral research as my family refused to talk about the wars. I lost my grandmother's brother Albert Mueller in World War 1 who was never found.
@jeremy Lyons Churchill = *NOT* a liberal. He was an extreme right-wing social Darwinist. He believed his 'breeding' made him superior to his working class compatriots
@jeremy Lyons why are you ignoring the socialism in National Socialism?
FIRST: Thank you for this compilation of battle scenes. The raw imagery of war is not one to be easily forgotten. Courage and insanity are both rolled into one, this is the reality of war. Amidst the confusuion of explosions, shock waves and the resulting carnage and destruction, it is the acknowledgement that all those participating in these scenes, were sons, husbands, fathers who had families and lives just like us. Unlike us, they were fighting for what they believed in and paid the ultimate price with their lives. Some are said to have been lucky to survive this ordeal . . . . you think??? What do these survivors think??? Saving Private Ryan put it just right, "Did I desrve to live so that others could die so that I could go on?" These survivors live with the knowledge that they have to deserve having survived while their brothers and friends did not. A survivor has the conscience that he needs to pay a debt, a debt that enabled him to carry on where others could not.
SECOND: Nowadays I feel that people don't quite grasp what war is really all about. Watching this brings back memories of my own time in a war. Modern in comparison but nonetheless as tragic and sad. One of the survivors mentions that he will never forget his comrades who died there. The lack of humanity in such situations is unimaginable. The will to do anything to survive very much a reality. Talking about it just makes one feel empty and worthless. Not because of the experience but because the listener has no way to relate to what is being said or shown to their own personal experience. Reading some of these comments just makes me sad. This documentary is showing us a raw format of war. It's not hollywood! It's reality! Who are we to sit here and criticize a person who has taken considerable time and some investment to deliver this production? If you just pay attention to the narrator and watch the screen before you, you come to understand the rawness of it all. The horror of it all. I personally don't feel that the "black & white " imagery do it justice but I can feel what I'm seeing as being genuine and a true depiction of what those poor souls went through. The noise. The intense confusion of it all. Having the German perspective was great. I can understand why there was no Russian counterpart. Mostly because these people are not around anymore but more likely than not, they are not on record (communist data is kept secret) and I'm sure that many of the Russian survivors were never given the recognition for something that was considered a duty anyway. A grim reality that those who carry out the destruction are just that, a means to an end. No name. No identity. Just a figure carrying out destruction and mayhem in the name of "justice", defence or even patriotism. Thank you for this reminder.
THIRDLY: Nobody has the right to criticize a free production that they are watching and not paying for. The very least is to be thankful to be given an opportunity, an insight into a brief moment in history (regardless of it's imperfections). Those camera men, the bulky ackward equipment that had to be lugged around the battle field. Incredible! The danger they were being constantly faced with and the consequences of being there as an observer, are just mind boggling. In my war , I had two "correspondents" who accom[panied us on several operations/patrols and they were always in harms way. Never carrying a weapon but instead spools of film and the bulky canisters they carried with them everywhere they went. I used to often wonder what possessed these men to do such a thing. I called what I did patriotic, they called it essential to record the raw imagery of what wars produce. The waste of human potential to destroy one another. All in the name of patriotism, all in the name of protecting or defending the land you were born in. Many of these men are willing to give up their lives to deliver the unthinkable. The throws of carnage and deep pain which is the experience of war. Regardless of the excuse behind it.
LASTLY: It doesn't seem that people know how to display their gratittude and appreciation with what others have had to go through to get this sliver of tragedy and heroism to us, the mere observer. Many of whom, have never served let alone gone through the ravages of war. Thank you.
@Jorge Thanks for your excellent comments. It was very well structured and thoughtful. All the points you made were valid and very well written, in part because of your personal experiences of war. I'd be interested in knowing what war you fought in. You captured how indifferent the soldiers were to the enemy soldiers and also how indifferent commanders could be to their own soldiers. Indifferent to others suffering, it's unbelievable what men will do to other men, for cowardly politicians and doctrines. All the best from Ireland.
@@brianbyrne3003 I'm originally from South Africa (Portuguese parents, therefore of Portuguese descent) having been called up to serve my country (conscription) I was given a choice after completing my basics. Stay in the regular army and do my 2 years with the follow up, 1 month a year of duty for the next 20 years or join the special forces for a 5 year contract and that would be the end of it. Having studied 2 years of medicine I had decided to take a break from my studies so the SADF contacted me straight away.
I chose to join the special forces and at that time they viewed me favourably because I could speak 5 languages (proficient in English, Afrikaans and Portuguese) German and Zulu being the other two. I had scored highly in survival and sniping and had a medical background to which they offered to continue my path through the military.
I could not stand listening to my friends (Portuguese) who kept talking about going to Portugal with the benefits obtained in their education in South Africa so they could go and live in a "foreign" country and make lots of money there. Using this as an angle to avoid conscription. COWARDS! I thought 🙄 at the time.
I was involved in the "South African Border War". I took part in 4 different campaigns.
Operation Moduler
Operation Coolidge
Operation Hooper
Operation Packer
I was shot and injured in the last operation where I was taken out and spent the next year in rehabilitation so I wouldn't lose my leg or its normal function. Perhaps because we were a specialist force, our relationship with our superiors was very strong (like family) a very high "esprit de corp". My high school motto was "Fearless & Faithful" and my unit motto was "Fear naught but God" 😊 I guess my path has always been solid and steeped in tradition and honour. Our commanders were like our fathers. Our colleagues were our brothers in arms. Loyalty above life.
Our enemy at the time were a mix of countries and cultures. The most formidable being the Cuban operators and their Russian spetsnaz comrades in arms.
Throughout my time there I witnessed much and try to forget why. I experienced more grief for the civilian population (especially the children) than anything else. We could never be indifferent towards our enemy. Whenever they caught one of us, the first thing was to cut off phalange by phalange from each hand. Then flaying the skin while under interrogation. For this reason we would never be taken alive. Our vests had a top left hand pocket on just under the clavicle area, reserved for 1 round of our side arm. This round had our name on it. What our trackers (hottentots) khoikhoi would do when they caught up with fleeing enemy soldiers, incredible! Especially when they are such a peace loving people, gentle in their customs but they are just as fierce as the Zulu or Azande in war.
Although there may seem to be an indifference towards their actions. I saw it more as personal. I personally tried to keep it professional, if there is such a thing. It was my way of keeping it outside of who I am as a person. As a soldier I had a task to accomplish. At the time I was convinced that I was doing the patriotic thing. My role was more reconnaissance though. It was only afterwards that I realised the political betrayal. I hope I have answered your questions/interest. The world generally doesn't want to know the truth, especially in what goes on in Africa. It's taken a lifetime to come to grips that this world is really a cruel world we live in. But I still live on in the hope that good will prevail over evil. Forgive me for being so graphic at one point but that, as I'm sure you understand, is one of the many examples of what war produces. I still cannot watch any film/documentary regarding Africa. It brings a flood of memories that I would rather just leave at rest. European conflicts, world war I and II, I have no problem but African Bush, I stay away from. It's still to painful to remember.
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The Germans lost the war at Stalingrad... Kursk was the confirmation.
And operation Bagration was nail in coffin
@@MrPunac Opération Bagration was a catastrophe irreparable/french/ for Hitler
Actually the war was lost in 41 in front of Moscow imho. Then declares war on the USA?
They lost the war when Hitler decided not to go straight to Moscow. They had to get it done quick or they were gonna get swallowed up by numbers and war production.
@@partridgepimp3363 Yeah, but they probably couldn't have maintained their flanks all the way to Smolensk-- that's a 230-mile salient. And they didn't know about the Siberian troops Stalin had tucked away.
Love this guy's narrative, his voice is brilliant.
Whoever was responsible for the sound in this thing should never work again.
Biggest battle ever fought. Must've felt like Armageddon. Broke the German war machine. An incredible feat by the Soviets.
they only 'broke' the formidable German war machine because of numbers, not because of skills or weapons.
@@russjiao-long5387 that's generally how it works.
@@russjiao-long5387 no matter how they did it they still won the battle and the war. And they absolutely did break the German war machine. Germany never recovered on the eastern front after Kursk.
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Man I’m loving Janson media for these videos!!
Was a turning point in the history of warfare
Mike Ray There were many turning points in WW2
It literally took me a couple of minutes to realise the documentary had started. I thought it was an intro of some kind
very good documentary on the battle.
Thank you Janson😁
That battle is louder than the narrator
Never seen these incredible footages of wwii
Thank you for sharing #JansonMedia
Excellent well researched documentary.
If I could take a time machine bubble back to WWII I would want to go to this battle. I've done a lot of research into it and Kursk and Stalingrad were the decisive factors in Germany's defeat. The Russian army and air force just would not quit. They kept coming as I'm sure any nation would do to some force that was trying to enslave them. A lot of this footage I hadn't seen before. Very recommended.
You'd probably get a kick of of TIK's channel. He goes over Stalingrad with a fine tooth comb, a lot of info I didn't even know and I've studied these battles for over 20 years.
He must have done at least 10-20 videos alone on the various parts of the Battle of Stalingrad. Check it out !
Much of it has to do with Stalin's replenishment of top-of-the-line war materiel from America from the Lend-Lease.
Again russian soldiers would have been barefoot throwing rocks at german tanks without America.
No army could have beaten Germany alone.
America destroyed the JAPANESE, the vichy french, the Italian CAMPAIGN, the luftwaffe, the kregsmarine, the german economy and most of its oil. 1/3 of hitlers forces were tied down in the west. America took out millions of german soldiers while supporting Russia.
The russians were tough but 1 on 1they had no chance.
@@mel124177 yeah usa helping communist country, more propaganda please
@@peregrimus I marvel at ur ignorance buddy. Go read up. The world isn't black & white as ur simplistic mind imagined.
Oh btw, have u heard of the saying "the enemy of my enemy is my _____?" ;P
No maps in the entire film. That's one of the most basic things of any battle documentary. Why none?
@Kubabala Bala NOT ONE map in the entire one hour production. !! It’s pathetic. It’s extremely poor. The only mention is of the”salient”. Brainless!
They cover troop positions and movements by voice, It’s not very hard to listen to it.
Notice the black and white film. Using a map back then might of been considered a traitor. Made during the war not a animated version
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There is actually a map, shown very briefly at 05:35 in black and white. It shows the salient and the two German pincers from north and sourh, shown as broad arrows. It is easy to miss due to it being shown only for a couple of seconds. I have to agree with you however - a decent map is important in a good documentary, even if only a drawn one.
Most viewers know the geography of the battles already, even the names of the little Russian towns in western Russia.
Great video! 👏🏼😎
Sound effects are awesome. This is an epic battle!!
the bloodiest battle of the bloodiest war in human history.You watch this,and you have to feel real pity for the soldiers on both sides.
Kudos to the poor bastards that survived this bloodbath.
Richard Scanlan it’s gone now :(
Those were noble souls.. who rose to the occasion, to the call of duty... they died doing their duty.. most doing it very willingly... don't pity them... there are far more people today who die of drug overdose, or by committing acts of violence n terror, or suicide.... pity those...
There are those who die and then again, those who die..
No pity for the Nazis. They used the Sicilian invasion to cut and run from the battle leaving the Italians to face the outcome. Himmler's Nazi forces were never used again to face the Russian onslaught. The Nazis were the first to leave the battle field at Kursk because The Red Army took no Nazi prisoners, they died on the spot. Instead, Himmler use them to fight weaker tanks and soldiers, like the Canadians, Brits and Americans. Himmler's Nazis were no match for the Red Army.
Proud Indian Citizen your an idiot.
Richard Scanlan Has everyone forgotten about Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle of WWII?
The Germans were low on fuel, attacking the most well prepared anti-tank defenses in history, manned by the best anti-tank troops that existed. Despite this, they were not really defeated at Kursk doing a greater amount of damage. Kursk happened to be the place where they reached the end of available resources for offensive initiative. Truly amazing fighters.
To attack such well-prepared defences. The three panzercorps in the South should have driven north via Oboyan .
Yup, got their ass kicked hard. They started it, and they got beaten, Russia had WAY too many human resources and help from all around the world while Germans had Italian and Romanian allies, which is no allies at all. Once USSR learned how to counter their panzers, and set up military production right, they were doomed.
bodasactra i agree!
Truly amazing fighters: The Red Army
@@rednek666 >Russia had WAY too many human resources
By mid 1942 Soviet human resources were not greater than Germany's.
Germany Allies: Finland, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria (didn't fight on the Eastern front). Waffen SS Divisions contributed to German armed forces: French, Belgian, Norwegian, Croatian. Spain's Blue Division. Manufacturing and resources from all occupied European countries. Example: Czech's factories kept producing tanks, etc... etc... till like April 1945 with no interruptions.
Great program,& thank you so much,for doing the translations in a voice over,not text on the screen,like so many other videos do. Sometimes,I'm doing something else,just listening to a You Tube video,& don't want to have to read tons of translated,.
I read about this in my Class 9 history project...On World War II..It was fascinating yet humbling to see this..the horror of war
Dude at 26:25-26:24 is the bravest and most honorable man I have ever seen! That guy straight up accepted death and dealt it. It's still psychologically fanscinating to me just observing the fact that humans interacted and behaved like this towards fellow man. Over nothing but political pride, crazy.
Jon Dillehay Agreed, but honestly THOUSANDS of men did this same thing during this war on all sides. It was an incredibly horrific yet amazingly brave war.
Jon Dillehay I agree with you most likely the bravest wolf among the men.
I agree. But the craziest thing about that is the Bible predicts a war that's gonna be worst then this. And everything in the Bible is true and guaranteed. I have researched it deeply.
Jon Dillehay
, What you are talking about? It was not the battle over nothing but political pride. The Russians fought for their homeland against fascist invaders.
@@joshuajayden77haha oh yes it’s all true! Just say things and it is so! Let’s ignore the things proven false in the bible or make excuses for it. Fair play!
So in the end the defeat of the Germans on the eastern front is attributed to a small landing in Sicily, by the Americans, for which the Germans diverted a few tank divisions. The Germans had known after Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, that the eastern front was a great mistake. Imagine if the sacrifice of the Soviet people were not made, the whole of Europe was in the hands of the Germans. And Britain was lost any moment, but for the great sacrifices of the Soviets on the eastern front. This what you expect from American archive footage. comment from Pakistan
fayyaz noor your knowledge of WW2 is limited British and Empire troops invaded Sicily too - Hollywood isn’t a true representation of war history
@@allenomalley4014 never the less, Russia lost 27 MILLION defeating the main bulk of the nazi war machine
Everyone is entitled to an opinion.
Awesome footage
Lots of footages. I like it. It's OK with the captions on.
King Tigers were not even in production in 1943 so I am puzzled as to why newsreels showing them are included in this video.
Only Tiger 1 back then.
Yeah, I hate it when they get it sooo wrong. Makes me kinda not trust the footage. I like film of the event, as it is explained. Not just any ole footage they happened to have. Why not just show action in Burma?
Even pictures of Panzer 2 that had been phased out over a year before.
At any time since the Soviet Union was invaded 70% of Hitler's armies were on the Eastern front. The Russians defeated the Germans. Kursk was the biggest battle of the war by a huge margin. Brian Oosterbeek Netherlands.
85%
The allies wiped out the Luftwaffe and the Russians wiped out the Wehrmacht. Frankly the allies had a much better deal. 20 million Russian dead vs around 500,000 American losses and 4.3 million Germans. The best way to live through WW2 was to be an American. Post WW2 Stalin was responsible for another 20 million dead Russians, frankly makes you wonder if Russia would have been better off loosing.
Jeff K Being British would’ve been best
@@jeffk464 You are wrong.
7-8 millions RedArmy losses were on battle fields, 1-2 millions were death wounded & all other losses (about 27 million total losses) were civil population, tortured by nazis...
When comparing RedArmy losses vs German's-don't forget to join Romanian losses, Hungarian, & also volunteers from France, Holland, Spain, etcetera ( even Poland )...
Concerning after the War time, you are absolutely fooled by fake media.
Progress of economic(about 15 % year in 50-s), science( nuclear electric station, nuclear bomb, 1 nuclear commercial ocean ships, 1 satellite, 1 Man in space,high tеch aerplanes), culture, growing population, etc, etc...
Could it be done in conditions of slavery, terror, fear to lost life, freedom, friends, relatives???
Jeff K Hitler’s plan was to exterminate or enslave the Slavic people. No Geneva convention for pows. Even if Stalin did have many Soviets killed, don’t you think that under German rule Russians would have been starved, and lived in serfdom? way worse.
Good documentary, thanks
wow this footage man, i have never seen anything like this. wow just wow
Say what you will about the rest of it, but there was some great footage in this thing.
Always with the foot fetish, aren't you?
Amidst all the praise for the brave cameramen capturing incredible scenes of battle -- land and air -- in "The Battle of Kursk," we read here over and over complaints about the amateurish, disproportionate sound. No argument: the post production's unequal, fluctuating, overbearing sound levels re 1) sound effects, 2) music, 3) 'live,' source sound and 4) narration are atrocious. Had this hour been compiled with the skills and experience of a professional post-production team, these endless, legitimate complaints would never have been written.
. . . The brave, adept camera operators -- those lucky enough to have survived -- would be justifiably outraged to see their masterpieces of documentary war coverage sabotaged in this slipshod, sloppy manner. . . . Still, I 'stuck it out' till the end.
Germ. solder said NO METER HOW MUCH T 34 BEEN DESTROYED, ALWAYS COME A NEW 1:)))))))
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The Battle of Kursk was the "LOUDEST" battle in World history,
it was so LOUD that Adolf Hitler went STONE DEAF after it, (even though he was in Berlin at the time),
and suffered from "chronic bleeding ears" until the end of the war,
the Germans lost the Battle of Kursk, due to the fact, that they didn't deploy their MONSTER rail gun,
a weapon so LOUD it rendered the enemy so deaf they couldn't hear their orders,
other LOUD weapons used by the Germans at the Battle of Kursk (A.K.A. Operation Decibel)
included the ear splitting Nebelwerfer, commonly called the Noise Gun by the Russians,
and the tinnitus inducing JU87 Stuka, that was so loud, you couldn't hear the bombs it dropped exploding.
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agree 💯%
An excellent documentary undoubtedly
Superb doc! Fantastically horrifying!
Amazing footage. Personally, I had no issues with hearing the narration over the battlefield FX tracks.
Agreed. I dont see or hear an issue.
Too bad a lot of footage is not Kursk related at all. And some of it is directly from the Soviet movie about Kursk. You can tell how fake the Tiger tanks look, as they use the movie scene, several times.
Maybe lots of people use crappy laptop speakers???
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@Marc Kunze What ??? I didn't get that ???
Sounds as if it was narrated well...Too bad you can only hear it when there isn't a war going on
Which makes it pretty much never😆😆
@ImNotMad ButUR
Which are the best parts? I want to see the footage but don't have the patience to go through it all rn so some timestamps would be greatly appreciated 😂
Nevermind, your comment is 8 months old, not like you can remember which parts are the best
@@fabiana7157 watch the whole documentary 😉
Dude just talking over explosions for an hour.
Very interesting
Brilliant narration.
Can believe this happened i was not born at that time. So much men lost their lives.
An argument could be made that Operation Bagration in 22, Jun to 19, Aug 1944 in Byelorussia, also between the German and Russian armies was the largest clash of arms. The final result of the offensive was the complete destruction of German Army Group Center, 4th and 9th armies and 3rd Panzer Army.
The Wehrmacht was reduced to an army on paper after that.
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Moscow for the Wehrmacht was a slap in the face, Stalingrad was a serious concussion, Kursk was a crippling blow, and Bagration was the knockout punch. Don't fuck with Russia.
Germany still had 4 million soldiers left plus some. At the time russia walked into Berlin Hitler had an army of 40,000 soldiers just sitting in Norway to keep out the west.
Just before bagration Hitler had pulled huge amounts of soldiers, tank divisions and sa units and sent them to the west for the attack through the ardennes.
Same thing at stalingrad. Stalin said if America had not tied down hitlers best divisions stalingrad would be lost. At kursk Hitler pulled out because America attacked Italy.
@@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 without America russian soldiers would have been barefoot throwing rocks at german tanks.
Everyone of those battles you mentioned had huge german forces being pulled off the eat and sent to the west because America had just landed.
Stalingrad was being lost by Russia when America landed an army in Africa beting the Germanz ans the Italians. America knocked out Italy, vichy france ,Japan and over 4 million soldiers of Germany including the luftwaffe, kregsmarine, Germanys economy and most of its oil.
All Russia had to do is march west with American trucks ,tanks ,trains ,30,000 planes ,tons of food ,fuel, a d tanks made with American steel, ect.
@@dillonmcconnell2592 Operation Bagration began on June 23, 1944 and ended on August 29, 1944.The German operation in the Ardennes began in December 1944.And how is this related? The Germans gave the Allies a good kick in the snot at the end of the war.If the allies did not know how to fight, then what about the Red army?
And all this in one battle ! Amazing the will of life or death !
Much respect from all sides !
When you hear about the largest battles in human history, this has to be at or near the very top.
This war made our world Crumble
3:00 Kursk is in Russia, not Ukraine. Probably confused it with Kharkov wich is in Ukraine and quite close to Kursk.
your fucking right exuse my language.what a documentary though seen it a few times BRILLIANT!!! kURSK is a city in Russia administrative center of Kursk Oblast.sure of it never the less 9/10 top doc well detailed & brilliant footage.
Better yet, China is in Mexico.
@Marc Kunze wtf are you talking about? Ukraine was part of Russia for centuries. Just deal with it
Excellent presentation.
THANKS.A TRIBUTE TO BRAVE MEN WHO DIED IN THAT BIGGEST TANK CLASH EVER.
Narrator-"HEY! Could y'all cool it with all the shooting? I'm trying to make a video here, SHEESH!"
Bit much isn't it
The sound fits the film. This is a WAR documentary.
easy street Huh?? Huh???
@@davewilliams5102 It's OK if you want to decrease the volume Dave. 555
You get it 👍👍
Awesome stuff 👍
Some of the best ww2 footage anywhere