3/12/2023 0 Comments Army group north barbarossa![]() The gutting of German forces in the East liberated the last parts of the Soviet Union and positioned the Red Army on the Vistula River, just across from Warsaw and within striking distance of Berlin. Operation Bagration, the Red Army offensive into Byelorussia from June 23 to August 19, 1944, resulted in the destruction of 28 of 34 divisions of the German Third Panzer, Fourth, and Ninth Armies of Army Group Center. ![]() This week marks the anniversary of another major event in World War II that, though it will be little noticed outside of Russia, was just as important a piece in the mosaic of Allied victory as was D-Day. Two and a half weeks ago the nations of Europe, the United States, and Canada joined together in commemorating the 75 th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, which initiated the Great Crusade-the liberation of western Europe from Hitler’s grip.
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