On this day 70 years ago, three years to the day after the beginning of Nazi Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union, the Soviet army launched an offensive codenamed Operation "Bagration", which led to the Wehrmacht’s greatest defeat on the Eastern Front.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
June 22, 1944
Labels:
Aktion Reinhard(t),
Belorussia,
Belzec,
Einsatzgruppen,
gas chambers,
gas vans,
Hoefle telegram,
non-Jewish victims,
partisans,
shootings,
siege of Leningrad,
Soviet civilians,
Soviet prisoners of war,
Stalin,
Treblinka
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