On the night of 21-22 June 1944 the Red Army launched its summer offensive in Belorussia, three years to the day after Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. [...] In five weeks, the Red Army advanced 450 miles, driving through Minsk to the outskirts of Warsaw and tearing the guts out of Hitlers Army Group Centre. Nearly 20 German divisions were totally destroyed and another 50 severely mauled – an even worse disaster than Stalingrad. [...] Overlord (Normandy) and Bagration together delivered the double whammy that knocked out the Thousand-Year Reich.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 02:53:19 +0000
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