Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Lokacin da Mickl ya dauki umurnin, 11th Panzer Division bai gama sake ginawa ba bayan ya sha wahala sosai a lokacin da aka yi ƙoƙari ya taimaka wa 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 a kaddamar da
Operation Citadel da aka yi niyya a Soviet a Kursk, XLVIII Panzer Corps ya kasance a kudu maso yammacin layin tsakanin Bohodukhov da Akhtyrka.