June 22, 1944: The Day Bagration Began the End of Army Group Centre
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June 22, 1944: The Day Bagration Began the End of Army Group Centre
At five minutes past three on the morning of the twenty-second of June, nineteen forty-four, Soviet guns opened fire on the German trenches north of Vitebsk. A young German officer named Armin Scheiderbauer was in those trenches with the two hundred and fifty-second infantry division.
In this video:
How Soviet maskirovka and a partisan rail war fooled the German command into sending Army Group Centre's tanks south
The four Soviet fronts under Bagramyan, Chernyakhovsky, Zakharov and Rokossovsky, cutting in from both sides
Vitebsk, Orsha, Mogilev and Bobruisk: the fortified-place order turned each city into a trap
Busch fired, Model handed two army groups, and Soviet tanks in Minsk eleven days after the first barrage
The 17 July march of 57,600 prisoners through Moscow, and the street-washing trucks behind the last column
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June 22, 1944: The Day Bagration Began the End of Army Group Centre
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June 22, 1944: The Day Bagration Began the End of Army Group Centre
At five minutes past three on the morning of the twenty-second of June, nineteen forty-four, Soviet guns opened fire on the German trenches north of Vitebsk. A young German officer named Armin Scheiderbauer was in those trenches with the two hundred and fifty-second infantry division.
In this video:
How Soviet maskirovka and a partisan rail war fooled the German command into sending Army Group Centre's tanks south
The four Soviet fronts under Bagramyan, Chernyakhovsky, Zakharov and Rokossovsky, cutting in from both sides
Vitebsk, Orsha, Mogilev and Bobruisk: the fortified-place order turned each city into a trap
Busch fired, Model handed two army groups, and Soviet tanks in Minsk eleven days after the first barrage
The 17 July march of 57,600 prisoners through Moscow, and the street-washing trucks behind the last column
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Opening barrage: 22 June 1944, three years to the day after the invasion of the USSR. (Wikipedia, Operation Bagration)
Soviet force: ~1.67 million men, 5,818 tanks and assault guns, 7,799 aircraft. (Wikipedia, Operation Bagration)
Army Group Centre: ~849,000 men, 495 working tanks and assault guns. (Wikipedia, Operation Bagration)
Tanks sent south: LVI Panzer Corps moved 20 May; Army Group Centre lost ~88% of its tanks. (Wikipedia, LVI Panzer Corps)
Minsk liberated: 3 July 1944, about 100,000 Germans trapped east of the city. (Wikipedia, Minsk offensive)
German losses: 399,102 (Frieser); ~450,000 (Glantz and House); 28 divisions destroyed. (Frieser; Glantz and House)
Soviet losses: ~180,000 dead or missing. (Krivosheev)
Moscow march: 17 July 1944, 57,600 prisoners, 19 generals at the head. (rbth.com)