Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Muna Chikunguru 1943, Hoth akatungamira 4th Panzer Army muHondo yeKursk sechikamu cheArmy Group South. Operation Citadel yakadaidzira kukomberedzwa kaviri, kwakanangidzirwa paKursk, kukomberedza vadziviriri veSoviet uye kuvhara nzvimbo inokosha. Boka reMauto reSouth rakapa Hoth's 4th Panzer Army, pamwe chete neDhipatimendi reMauto "Kempf". Mapoka aHoth, akasimbiswa neII SS Panzer Corps pasi paPaul Hausser, akapinda mumitsara inoverengeka yekudzivirira yeSoviet, vasati vamiswa muHondo yeProkhorovka. Pashure peKursk, Mauto Matsvuku akavamba nhevedzano yezviito zvinobudirira izvo zvakapfuura Dnieper, zvakatorazve Kiev
uye vakadzinga vaGermany kubva kumabvazuva kweUkraine. Muna September 1943, uto raHoth rakapindirwa nemauto eRed Army uye rakanga risingakwanisi kuchengetedza mutsara wepamberi unopfuurira kunyange mukudzokera shure. Mauto akayambuka Dnieper kumaodzanyemba uye kuchamhembe kweKiev nokurasikirwa kukuru. Musi wa 10 December 1943, Hoth akabviswa pakuva mutungamiri, uye haana kuzodzoswa kusvikira muna April 1945.