I te wā i riro ai a Mickl i te mana, kāore anō te 11th Panzer Division kia oti i a ia te hanga anō i muri i te nui o ngā ngaronga i a ia e whakamātau ana ki te whakaora i a Stalingrad i te Hakihea 1942 me 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 o Operation Citadel
I te whaainga ki te Soviet i Kursk, ko te XLVIII Panzer Corps i noho ki te tonga ki te hauauru o te raina i waenga o Bohodukhov me Akhtyrka.