Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Musi wa 5 Chikunguru 1943, Model akatungamirira kurwisa kuchamhembe kweKursk panguva ye
Operation Citadel, chirongwa chakanga chakonzera gakava guru mukati mevakuru vakuru veGermany. Günther von Kluge naErich von Manstein, vaitungamirira mauto eArmy Groups Centre neSouth, pakutanga vakanga vakurudzira kuti salient irwiswe muna Chivabvu, maSoviet asati agadzirira kudzivirira kwavo. Vamwe, kubatanidza Heinz Guderian, vakanzwa kuti kurwisa kwakanga kusiri madikanwa, sezvo kwaizoparira kurasikirwa kukuru kwamatangi uye nokudaro kukanganisa zvirongwa zvokuwedzera simba rengoro dzehondo dzeGermany. Model akanga asina chokwadi nemikana yechirongwa ichi, achinongedzera kuti Central Front yaKonstantin Rokossovsky yakanga yakanyatsogadziriswa uye yakamuita vaviri kune mumwe muvarume, matangi uye zvombo. Panzvimbo pokugumisa kuti kurwisa kwacho kwaifanira kumiswa, zvisinei, akati kwaifanira kumbomiswa kusvikira agona kugamuchira mamwe masimba, zvikurukuru matangi matsva ePanther neFerdinand anoparadza matangi.