Operation Bagration: Episode 78

44 min • 22 juni 2025

The USSR’s answer to D-Day in June 1944 takes the Germans by surprise—and annihilates a whole army group.

Map 1: The Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive, the end of the Continuation War against Finland

Map 2: The "Byelorussian Balcony”

Map 3: Attack on Vitebsk

Map 4: Rokossovsky’s attack on Bobruisk

Map 5: Attack on Minsk

Minsk, July 1944

Destroyed German armour on road to Minsk

German POWs in Moscow, July 1944

Soviet and Polish Home Army (AK) soldiers together in Vilnius, July 1944. The AK soldiers were then arrested by the NKVD and sent to Gulags.

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