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
Photos
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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