Citadel
The German offensive name, 5 July 1943. A named operational object of Battle of Kursk (5 July-23 August 1943).
German 9th Army and 4th Panzer Army / Army Detachment Kempf versus Central, Voronezh and Steppe Fronts -- a density of guns and mines.
New German types (Panther, Elefant) as a political-technical bet.
Systems
Salient / bulge
The Kursk projection in the front.
Erich von Manstein's command
The southern artist of German memoir; Citadel was not his preferred battle.
Walter Model's command
The northern attack that stalled -- a defensive specialist in an offensive job.
Sicily landings
1943-07-10: A western event in the same week.
Last German strategic offensive in the east
A dating fact.
Meters
Geographic / demographic scale
40
Peak intensity
88
How long it defined a period
16
Tech or method shift
50
Borders, regimes, law, alliances
60
Film, school, ritual density
55
Hotspots
Salient forms
Spring 1943: After Kharkov, the bulge exists. Named as historical geography of Battle of Kursk, not as a targeting list.
Delay
May-Jun: Panthers, mines, arguments. Named as historical geography of Battle of Kursk, not as a targeting list.
Citadel
5-16 Jul: The German throw. Named as historical geography of Battle of Kursk, not as a targeting list.
Soviet replies
12 Jul-23 Aug: Kutuzov and Rumyantsev. Named as historical geography of Battle of Kursk, not as a targeting list.
Memory fight
After: Cartoons vs archives. Named as historical geography of Battle of Kursk, not as a targeting list.
Materials
Chronology (5 July-23 August 1943)
Battle of Kursk is bounded as 5 July-23 August 1943. 1943-03 opens the usual narrative (Kharkov German counter); After 1991 closes it (Archive turn).
Theatre: Kursk salient, southern and central Russia
Place is evidence. Kursk salient, southern and central Russia is where Battle of Kursk happened -- a map for readers, not a guide for repeating it.
Human-cost band
hundreds of thousands of casualties, scholarly range; not a single tidy integer Keep the figure as a range. Spectacle integers are not a census.
Prokhorovka
12 July southern clash -- famous and over-counted. A material of the Battle of Kursk vocabulary, dated to 5 July-23 August 1943.
1943 formations, not a modern armour ORBAT or a minefield-laying guide.
Soviet repair and rail were the quiet depth.