What was Operation Bagration and why is it barely known in the West despite being possibly the largest German defeat of WW2?
Answer
The massive Soviet summer offensive of June-August 1944 that destroyed Army Group Centre — the Germans lost over 350,000 men and 25 divisions were annihilated, more than at Stalingrad
Did You Know?
Operation Bagration is barely known in Western history because it coincided exactly with D-Day. Yet it may have been the most decisive military event of 1944. The Soviets advanced 350 miles in two months, permanently shattering the myth of German military superiority.