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RE: Bedtime Facts (172/365)
he spoke about the petroleum wells in Romania. Something like 5 million tons was required to run the campaign. Mentioned he was shocked at the number of tanks the Russians had. 35 000. Biggest tank battle in history was at Kursk. 6000 tanks were involved and something like 2 million men lost in one battle.
The Battle of Kursk went on for two and a half weeks in July 1943.
Losses in the battle itself were nowhere near that great. That number of off by at least two orders of magnitude if von Manstein is to be believed. He estimates both German and Soviet losses to be in the tens of thousands during those 18 days. German record keeping was usually reliable in this matters.