rotmesterow's tanks bypassed kharkov from the west. any day now the red army could encircle all the remaining reserves of army group south. the germans had only one road left, by which they could still leave the city. on august 22, manstein, fearing a repeat of the stalingrad disaster, gave the order to leave kharkov. the next day, the city was liberated by soviet troops. this meant that including losses for the germans, of the equipment that was under repair. ferdinands exploded en masse there and there. ceased to be tank in the sense that the mobile reserves as tank divisions literally had dozens of combat-ready vehicles left, this precipitous drop in the number of tanks in service led to the fact that... in august 1943 it became finally clear that the germans had lost their strategic offensive initiative, it no longer existed, and germany was still far from being a defeated country, but it was already clear that they were going over to the defensive, and the way out of the war is to leave with dignity, without losing face, but the g

rotmesterow's tanks bypassed kharkov from the west. from day to day the red army could encircle all the remaining reserves of army group south. the germans had only one road left at their disposal, along which they could still leave the city. on august 22, manstein, fearing a repeat of the stalingrad catastrophe, gave the order to leave kharkov. by soviet troops, this meant, among other things, the loss for the germans of that equipment, which the next day the city was liberated was under repair, that is , there were massive explosions of ferdinands and tigers, other equipment that could not be evacuated, they were simply abandoned or blown up, as a result , they captured a whole cemetery of equipment, of those machines that could be restored, these are these... they collected a lot of scrap metal and deprived army group south of mobile reserves, that is, mobile reserves, like tank divisions, ceased to be tank in the sense that they had literally dozens of combat-ready vehicles left, this precipitous drop in the number of tanks in serv

on august 3 , the voronezh. was lost, rotmesterow's tanks bypassed kharkov from the west.m one day to the next, the red army could encircle all the remaining reserves of army group south. the germans had only one road left, along which it was still possible to leave the city. on august 22, manstein , fearing a repeat of the stalingrad catastrophe, gave the order to leave kharkov. the next day, the city was liberated by soviet troops. this meant, among other things, the loss of the equipment that was under repair, ferdinando, tigra and other equipment that could not be evacuated exploded there en masse, they were simply abandoned or blown up. and as a result, they captured a whole cemetery of equipment, those machines that could be restored. this mass of scrap metal was collected and deprived army group south of mobile reserves, that is , mobile reserves, like tank divisions , ceased to be tank divisions in the sense that they had literally dozens of combat-ready vehicles left, this precipitous decline in the number of tanks in service led to the fact that there were no lon