The Unknown War is an American 20-part series that documents the World War II conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Today, SouthFront shares the 14th part of the series titled “The Liberation of Belorussia”. In 1944, the Red Army was advancing faster than ever. Having liberated Smolensk and Novgorod, the Soviet troops were approaching the first villages of Belarus.
While occupying Belarus for three years, the Nazis destroyed 9200 villages and killed more than two million people.
For Hitlar’s forces in Belarus, there was no return home. The Soviet Air Forces first cut their back lines. Six German divisions were later surrounded in Bobruisk. On June 26 the Red Army took Vitebsk.
Soviet troops then marched towards Minsk. There, one hundred thousand Nazis were captured in a ring of fire. At dawn on July 3, Soviet tanks broke through the German defensive lines, and the infantry broke into Minsk. By the end of the day the capital of Belarus was liberated.
As in the Baltics, the Red Army was faced in Belarus with another horrifying sight, the concentration camps left behind by the Nazis.
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the west criticizes russia for their brutality remember as russia headed west they came across villages destroyed with all the inhabitants -torture after torture no one spared – women-children-babies destroyed i know how i would feel -the same as lawrence of arabia movie- “no prisoners ” !!!
what ? the french , english and us militaries led in civilian casuality rates
whata bulshhh
ismet popovac, is that you?
the nazis would’ve conquered russia by 1942 if the usa hadn’t saved their azzes…heheheh
the failed us education system in all its glory. congratulations.
in 1942 the usa was doing f… all. their contribution to the war effort was crappy hollywood films full of bargain basement heroics and pneumatic bimbos. they were getting their arses kicked all over the pacific by the japs. the british were getting their arses kicked all over north africa. only russia was doing any fighting. in the 3rd quarter of 1942, the red army was suffering an average of 27,200 casualties a day. 2.5 million in the 3rd quarter of 1942.