Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Hui-tanguru 1943 i whakahokia te wehenga ki te Raki o te Rawhiti hei waahanga o te Army Group South a Erich von Manstein. Ko te wehenga, hei waahanga o te SS-"Obergruppenführer" Paul Hausser's II SS Panzer Corps, i uru ki te Pakanga Tuatoru o Kharkov, i whakaiti i te whakaeke a te Soviet. I te wā o tēnei pakanga, i mate a Theodor Eicke i te wa i patua ai tana waka rererangi. Ko Hermann Priess i whai i a Eicke hei rangatira. Ko te SS Panzer Corps, tae atu ki te wehenga, i nekehia ki te raki ki te uru atu ki
Operation Citadel, te whakaeke i whai ki te whakaiti i te Kursk salient. I te marama o Hui-tanguru 1943 i riro i te 3rd SS Panzer Regiment tetahi kamupene o nga Tiger I tanks taumaha.