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Originally Posted by Herroberst  What about hitting the Russian line in areas away from the Kursk Salient? |
Are you nuts? With the masses the Red Army had concentrated in the Kursk Salient and behind? They were just waiting for the German offensive to peter out so they could launch their own counter-offensives: google up Operations Kutuzov and Rumiantsev, what happened after Zitadelle lost steam. If the front would remain stable the Red offensive would be launched anyway, and this time without the losses suffered during the Kursk battle.
Then the GERMANS would have a problem, not the other way round!
By the way, while the battle of Prokhorovka still raged, Op. Kutuzov was already in full swing, on the north shoulder of the Kursk salient 9th and II Pz Army were cracking up already, hit by three Fronts!
And Ruminatsev was started after the Stavka created a little diversion expressly for the purpose further south on the Mius river, diverting the remainder of II SS PzK (minus LSSAH gone to Italy). Please give the Red Army some credit
