Hitler's 9th Army Ceased to Exist at Bobruisk: 70,000 Trapped and Erased in 6 Days, 1944
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Hitler's 9th Army Ceased to Exist at Bobruisk: 70,000 Trapped and Erased in 6 Days, 1944
On the twenty-sixth of June, nineteen forty-four, Hitler took away the one general who might have gotten the Ninth Army out.
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In late June 1944, Operation Bagration tore open the German front in Belarus, and the German 9th Army was caught east of the town of Bobruisk.
Two Soviet pincers, one from the north and one through marshland the Germans thought no army could cross, closed the ring around two whole corps in a pocket about twenty miles wide.
The 16th Air Army fell on the trapped column with more than five hundred aircraft.
Of the five divisions caught in the pocket, the largest group that reached German lines numbered about thirty men.
The 9th Army had ceased to exist, and within days the Red Army took Minsk.
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Hitler's 9th Army Ceased to Exist at Bobruisk: 70,000 Trapped and Erased in 6 Days, 1944
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Hitler's 9th Army Ceased to Exist at Bobruisk: 70,000 Trapped and Erased in 6 Days, 1944
On the twenty-sixth of June, nineteen forty-four, Hitler took away the one general who might have gotten the Ninth Army out.
In this video:
In late June 1944, Operation Bagration tore open the German front in Belarus, and the German 9th Army was caught east of the town of Bobruisk.
Two Soviet pincers, one from the north and one through marshland the Germans thought no army could cross, closed the ring around two whole corps in a pocket about twenty miles wide.
The 16th Air Army fell on the trapped column with more than five hundred aircraft.
Of the five divisions caught in the pocket, the largest group that reached German lines numbered about thirty men.
The 9th Army had ceased to exist, and within days the Red Army took Minsk.
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Battle: The Bobruisk pocket, Operation Bagration, 23 to 29 June 1944, in Belarus. (Wikipedia, Bobruysk offensive)
German force destroyed: The 9th Army, XXXV Corps and XLI Panzer Corps, encircled about 27 June in a pocket roughly twenty miles wide. (Wikipedia, Bobruysk offensive)
Losses: About 40,000 dead in the pocket; up to 70,000 killed or captured across the offensive. (Warfare History Network)
Soviet command: Rokossovsky's 1st Belorussian Front, a two-pincer plan: Gorbatov's 3rd Army from the north, Batov's 65th Army through the Polesian marsh. (HistoryNet)
Air blow: The 16th Air Army struck the trapped column with more than five hundred aircraft near Titovka. (warhistory.org)
The breakout: Of five divisions in the pocket, an estimated ten to fifteen thousand escaped on foot; the largest group to reach German lines numbered about thirty men. (battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.com)
Command loss: Thirty-one of forty-seven divisional and corps commanders were killed or captured. (Wikipedia, Bobruysk offensive)
Aftermath: Bobruisk was cleared 29 June and Minsk retaken 3 July; about 57,000 prisoners were marched through Moscow on 17 July 1944. (Wikipedia, Parade of the Vanquished)