Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te wa i riro ai a Mickl i te whakahau, kaore ano te 11th Panzer Division kia oti te hanga i muri i te mamae nui i te wa o te ngana ki te awhina i a Stalingrad i te marama o Tihema 1942 me te wa o te Pakanga Tuatoru o Kharkov i te Hui-tanguru me te Maehe 1943. Ko te 11th Panzer Division he waahanga no te "General der Panzertruppe" Otto von Knobelsdorff's XLVIII Panzer Corps i raro i te mana whakahaere o te "Generaloberst" Hermann Hoth's 4th Panzer Army, he waahanga ano hoki o te "Generalfeldmarschall" Erich von Manstein Army Group South. I mua i te whakarewatanga
Operation Citadel e aro ana ki te Soviet salient i Kursk, ko te XLVIII Panzer Corps i tapawha ki te tonga ki te hauauru o te raina i waenga o Bohodukhov me Akhtyrka.