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World War II

Operation Bagration - Great defeat

Saturday Aug 19, 1944
Belarus, Baltic states, Ukraine, and eastern Poland

On 22 June, the Soviets launched a strategic offensive in Belarus ("Operation Bagration") that destroyed the German Army Group Centre almost completely. The Soviet Union inflicted the biggest defeat in German military history by destroying 28 out of 34 divisions of Army Group Centre and completely shattered the German front line. The Battle ended on 19 August 1944.


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