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Operation Bagration was the military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Bellarus in the Eastern Front . It began 2 weeks after the Allies launched Operation Overlord and established the western front. Causing the Germans to h fight on two major fronts at the same time. The Soviet Union destroyed 28 of 34 divisions of Army Group Centre and completely shattered the German front line. It was the biggest defeat in German military history, with around 450,000 German casualties with an additional 300,000 soldiers being cut off and isolated in the Courland Pocket . On 22 June 1944, the Red Army launched its attack against Army Group Centre iwith the objective of encircling and destroying its main component armies. By 28 June, the German 4th Army had been destroyed, along with most of the Third Panzer and Ninth Armies. The Red Army exploited the collapse of the German front line to encircle German formations around the city of Minsk in the Minsk Offensive and thern destroying them and liberating Minsk on 4 July. With the end of effective German resistance in Belarus, the Soviet offensive continued Lithuania, Poland and Romania over the during the summer months of July and August. Operation Bagration diverted German mobile reserves to the central sectors, removing them from the Lublin, Brest and Lvov-Sndomierz areas, enabling the Soviets to undertake the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive and Lublin–Brest Offensive .This allowed the Red Army to reach the Vistula river and Warsaw which in turn put Soviet forces within striking distance of Berlin, setting the stage for the final phase of the war.

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Operation Bagration was the military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Bellarus in the Eastern Front . It began 2 weeks after the Allies launched Operation Overlord and established the western front. Causing the Germans to h fight on two major fronts at the same time. The Soviet Union destroyed 28 of 34 divisions of Army Group Centre and completely shattered the German front line. It was the biggest defeat in German military history, with around 450,000 German casualties with an additional 300,000 soldiers being cut off and isolated in the Courland Pocket . On 22 June 1944, the Red Army launched its attack against Army Group Centre iwith the objective of encircling and destroying its main component armies. By 28 June, the German 4th Army had been destroyed, along with most of the Third Panzer and Ninth Armies. The Red Army exploited the collapse of the German front line to encircle German formations around the city of Minsk in the Minsk Offensive and thern destroying them and liberating Minsk on 4 July. With the end of effective German resistance in Belarus, the Soviet offensive continued Lithuania, Poland and Romania over the during the summer months of July and August. Operation Bagration diverted German mobile reserves to the central sectors, removing them from the Lublin, Brest and Lvov-Sndomierz areas, enabling the Soviets to undertake the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive and Lublin–Brest Offensive .This allowed the Red Army to reach the Vistula river and Warsaw which in turn put Soviet forces within striking distance of Berlin, setting the stage for the final phase of the war.