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.