The Red Army's Plans in Documents of German Intelligence Agencies Prior to Operation Citadel

摘要

Previously unstudied documents of the Wehrmacht for 1943 are examined. The documents, kept in the Federal Archives of Germany, are used to analyze the activities of Foreign Armies East, an intelligence branch of the German army's General Staff, in processing intelligence information from special services and preparing reports for the Supreme Command and personally for Adolf Hitler during the conceptual development and planning of Operation Citadel, the key operation in the summer campaign of 1943.