Nazi German soldiers were killed in a tank battle with the Soviet Red Army and fell near during a tank battle of Prokhorovka on the Eastern Front in World War II. German soldiers lay dead on the ground through the tank's hatch.

   A Nazi Toz soldier was killed in a tank battle with the Soviet Red Army and fell near his tank during a tank battle on the Prokhorovka steppe on the Eastern Front in World War II. A German soldier lay dead on the ground through the tank's escape hatch. Prokhorovka (The steppe was littered with dead German soldiers. Soviet tanks attacked the German 1st SS-Panzer artillery regiment, killing some of its crew. Later, Soviet tanks were also destroyed by direct German anti-tank fire.

　The Battle of Prokhorovka was fought on July 12, 1943, during World War II near Prokhorovka, about 87 km southeast of Kursk in the Soviet Union. The battle, which broke out on the Eastern Front of World War II, was part of the larger Battle of Kursk. It was a major tank battle in which the Soviet Red Army's 5th Guards Tank Army attacked the German SS IISS-Panzer Corps. The Soviet Red Army suffered heavy losses in the attack, but prevented the Wehrmacht from taking Prokhorovka. The Soviets succeeded in breaking through the third defensive zone, the last strong fortification, and the Soviet Red Army took the strategic initiative on the Eastern Front.

　The Battle of Kurkus was the last strategic offensive the Germans were able to launch on the Eastern Front from July 4 to August 27, 1943. A total of approximately 6,000 tanks, about 2,800 on the German side and 3,000 on the Soviet Red Army side, took part in the battle, which was known as the largest tank battle in history. on May 13, at Tunis, the German and Italian forces in North Africa surrendered. The Wehrmacht High Command was forced to draw troops from the Eastern Front to reinforce the Italian front in response to the Allied landings in Sicily on July 10, 1943. The Battle of Prokhorovka was rewritten as a Soviet Red Army victory for Soviet Red Army propaganda purposes. The Germans failed to defeat the Soviet Red Army, and the casualties of the Battle of Prokhorovka on July 12 were approximately 842 German soldiers killed or wounded and 3,563 Soviet Red Army casualties.