"50,000 german prisoner were force marched through the streets of Moscow to show the scale of the victory"
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'''Operation Bagration''' was the codename for the [[Soviet]] offensive which defeated [[German]] [[Nazi]] forces in [[Belarus]]sia and Eastern [[Poland]] in World War II. The operation began on June 22, 1944,(the third anniversary of [[Operation Barbarossa]]) and resulted in the near destruction of the German Army Group Centre. German losses were estimated at 350,000 soldiers killed, wounded and MIA. Soviet forces advanced over 350 miles westwards.
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'''Operation Bagration''' was the codename for the [[Soviet]] offensive which defeated [[German]] [[Nazi]] forces in [[Belarus]]sia and Eastern [[Poland]] in World War II. The operation began on June 22, 1944,(the third anniversary of [[Operation Barbarossa]]) and resulted in the near destruction of the German Army Group Centre. German losses were estimated at 350,000 soldiers killed, wounded and MIA. 50,000 German prisoners were force-marched through the streets of [[Moscow]] to show the scale of the victory. Soviet forces advanced over 350 miles westwards.