Hello everyone, and thank you once again for listening to the saga of World War II,

a Cass's belly project.

As always, I encourage anyone with corrections or comments to write me at Cass's Belly guy

at gmail.com, or to use the contact Cassusbelly button at Cassusbelly podcast.com.

I always appreciate feedback from listeners and try to respond as quickly as I can.

As far as corrections, I do have one from our last episode.

During the defense of Karkov, I said it was one SS Panzer Corps defending the city,

when in fact it was two SS Panzer Corps, the same unit that would recapture it later in the episode.

A minor mistake borne out of just not editing closely enough.

Anyway, in this episode, we continued where we left off last time.

In episode 34, I teed up the Battle of Kursk, and now we are going to actually talk about the battle

and its aftermath.

Again, we're going to kind of breeze through the Eastern

Front content and pretty much come out of this episode in November 1943 along the Oast Front.

I've been thinking about it, and I reckon the reason time goes so fast in the Eastern Front is

because of the scales involved. Mostly we're talking about maneuvers on the Army and Army group

level, rather than at the

division or battalion level. Army-sized maneuvers take a lot of time to play out, so to get the

full picture, you have to zoom way out geographically and chronologically. If we were to do a real deep dive

and look at the eastern front at a division level, you could, but it would be torturously slow, and I think the forest would get lost for the

trees to a degree.

Maybe that's an idea for a podcast for someone out there.

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