Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da Mickl ya dauki umurnin, 11th Panzer Division bai gama sake ginawa ba bayan da ya sha wahala sosai a lokacin da aka yi ƙoƙari na taimako na Stalingrad a watan Disamba na 1942 da kuma lokacin yakin Kharkov na uku a watan Fabrairun da Maris na 1943. Rukunin Panzer na 11 ya kasance wani ɓangare na "Janar der Panzertruppe" Otto von Knobelsdorff's XLVIII Panzer Corps a ƙarƙashin ikon sarrafawa na "Generaloberst" Hermann Hoth's 4th Panzer Army, wanda shi kansa ya kasance wani ɓangare na "Generalfeldmarschall" Erich von Manstein's Army Group Kudu. Kafin kaddamar da Operation Citadel
Da yake mayar da hankali ga Soviets a Kursk, XLVIII Panzer Corps ya kasance a kudu maso yammacin layin tsakanin Bohodukhov da Akhtyrka.