Operation Bagration

Operation Bagration () was an operation by the Red Army of the Soviet Union against the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany that happened on the Eastern Front of the European theatre of World War II and took place from June - August 1944. The operation was targeting at German Army Group Center stationed in German occupied Soviet Byelorussia. Two weeks earlier Operation Overlord was started by the Western Allies restarting the Western Front and now Germany and the other European Axis powers had to fight on three fronts: the Eastern Front, the Italian Front, and the Western Front. It is considered to be one of the greatest military defeats in German history with over 450,000 casualties.Norman Davies, "Europe at War", Swedish , chapter 1, p. 40 in the Swedish translation (table of killed soldiers in the largest battles and campaigns)

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Other websites

 Operation Bagration: Soviet Offensive of 1944
 Operation Bagration (video) : lecture by the military historian Robert Citino at the 2014 International Conference on World War II, via the official Livestream channel of The National WWII Museum.

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