“The Day 300,000 German Soldiers Vanished | Operation Bagration 1944”
On June 22, 1944, exactly three years after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, 2.4 million Red Army soldiers launched Operation Bagration—the most devastating military defeat in German history. This documentary reveals the catastrophic destruction of Army Group Centre through the eyes of Colonel Hans-Georg Leyser of the 299th Infantry Division, who witnessed the complete annihilation of 28 German divisions in just 35 days.
00:00 Dawn of Disaster – June 22, 1944
02:15 The Calm Before: German Positions in Belarus
14:30 Soviet Deception & Maskirovka
24:45 The Artillery Storm Begins
35:20 Fortress Cities Become Death Traps
42:10 The Minsk Collapse
48:30 Highway of Death
54:15 The Road to Berlin Opens
This historically accurate documentary examines Operation Bagration WW2, the Soviet offensive that destroyed Wehrmacht Army Group Center (Centre) and opened the path to Nazi Germany’s defeat. Based on actual war diaries, military records, and survivor accounts from the Eastern Front 1944.
KEY TOPICS: Operation Bagration, Army Group Centre destruction, Eastern Front 1944, June 22 1944, Soviet offensive Belarus, Wehrmacht collapse, WW2 German defeat, World War 2 documentary, military history, Red Army victory, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Field Marshal Ernst Busch, Walter Model, Hitler’s fortress cities, Vitebsk, Orsha, Mogilev, Bobruisk, Minsk 1944, German prisoners Moscow, Soviet Deep Battle, largest WW2 offensive, Belarus liberation 1944, German Army casualties, Third Panzer Army, Fourth Army, Ninth Army, Eastern Front collapse
Credit to : Legends Of WWII