08.09.1943. (Patreon)

After the German attack at the battle of Kursk was defeated, the Red Army began an offensive of its own. It resulted in a series of attacks in different parts of the front. For a time the Germans attempted to contain these offensives with conducting tactical retreats and regrouping their forces. 

In the first half of September, however, they began to realise they lacked the troops to stop the Soviet advance unless they pulled their front line back to a more defensible position. As a result they decided to conduct probably the largest planned retreat of the German forces during the entire war and take army groups Center and South to the Panther-Wotan line, that ran mostly on the Dnieper river and its tributaries (Blue line on map).

 Unit symbol explanations: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WN22bJq3tw6yW-kj0X5PM-fEK-ukgpxh/view?usp=sharing