And the Jews and other civilians they murdered.
An awful lot of people died on the Eastern Front.
These daily postings have really brought home to me the vastness of the struggle in the East.
For many years, I thought that if I could go back in time to see one thing, it would have been the clash of fleets at Jutland in 1916. However, I have recently changed my mind. Now, I would say it would be this battle, Kursk. Never before and never since has there been so many men, guns, tanks and planes committed in such a furious and bitter struggle in a relatively confined area. And, both sides were more or less evenly matched, which is why the battle raged on in such intensity for so many days. I cannot fathom the endurance of the German and Soviet soldiers to keep going at it in such intense combat day after day after day.