SZ Photo - Defensive battles after Stalingrad and counter-offensive under General von Manstein, 1943
After the retreat from the Caucasus and the looming defeat at Stalingrad, Red Army troops forced the Wehrmacht units into fierce defensive battles. The Wehrmacht was forced to retreat further and further west from the river Don. After the temporary loss of the city of Kharkiv, the Army Group Don under Erich von Manstein was able to reconquer the city in February-March 1943 in a counteroffensive and hold it for a few months. On the one hand, this temporarily averted the uncontrolled collapse of the Eastern Front, two Soviet armies were completely wiped out and at the same time the foundation was laid for an advance on Kursk. - This selection contains pictures from our partner agency Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo.
06.03.1943 - Infantry and tanks head towards an attack as part of the German offensive in the area west of Kharkov. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.02.1943 - The soldiers of an air force radio troop placed on the ground attack a Soviet position at the Don front. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.02.1943 - light armored vehicles model 222 are deployed at the middle of the Don river for defense maneuvers. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.03.1943 - A German StuG III in fighting in Russia. The location is unknown. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.03.1943 - As part of the German offensive of Manstein in the area of the Army Group South, vehicles of the Waffen SS drive on partially ice-free streets to the city. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.03.1943 - As part of the German counter-offensive of Army Group South Russian troops were encircled near Kharkov . Damaged British made "Matilda" tanks and fallen soldiers to the fighting. [...
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01.03.1943 - German soldiers of the Waffen-SS amidst dead Russian soldiers of a mortar unit, who were killed in action. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.02.1943 - Armored personnel carriers Sd.kfz.251/1 of the Waffen SS advance in the region south of Kharkiv. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.03.1943 - Trucks transport troops during the combat of the March Offensive in the region northwest of Kharkiv. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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14.03.1943 - The gun of a unit of the Waffen SS fires on Russian positions on the embankment of the Lopan. The photo was taken during the reconquest of the city through units of the II SS tank...
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14.03.1943 - German troops reconquered the city of Kharkiv until March 16, 1943 within the framework of the Manstein March Offensive. Soldiers camouflage an anti-tank gun in front of an adminis...
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27.12.1942 - In Donbogen on the Eastern front a soldier of an anti-aircraft battery searches the airspace as an aircraft warning guard for enemy aircraft. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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22.03.1943 - Soldiers of the Waffen-SS in the center of Kharkov. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.02.1943 - Lieutenant General Walther Lucht, commander of the 336 Infantry Division (left) talking with the battalion commander of the I. / Grenadier Regiment 686 Horst Niederlaender at the f...
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29.11.1942 - German soldiers wait for their deployment in a battle station with a Maschinengewehr 34. Next to the MG, stick grenades are kept ready. Photo of the Propaganda Company (PK): war co...
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10.04.1943 - Shot down Soviet tanks at the gates of Kharkow. In front, killed soldiers. Photo of the Propaganda Company (PK): war correspondent Ritter. [XPAEXPORTID000008]
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03.04.1943 - Civilians walk through the streets of the city of Kharkov, which had been conquered by the Wehrmacht shortly before. A dead man lies in the ditch. In the background, vehicles of th...
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