Video spoilers history, starting with the blitzkrieg on Poland

Canopy.

[The next target of the Soviet attack is Minsk, the capital of Belarus. ]

[The original plan was to follow the traffic line between Smolensk and Minsk, step on the accelerator and rush straight ahead! ]

[After all, it looked like the German army was completely routed.]

[However, after attacking for a distance, the Soviet offensive failed and came to a standstill for a while.]

[At the critical moment, Chernyakhovsky, commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front, decided to make a new breakthrough near Vitebsk.]

[So more than 5000 tanks and self-propelled artillery were under the command of General Rotmistrov. ]

[Entered the interfluve between the Duvina and Dnieper rivers.]

Barrage:

"How many?"

More than 5000 tanks and self-propelled artillery?

“Oh my god, isn’t this a bit too much?”

"If I were a German soldier and saw the enemy's densely packed tanks and artillery, I would be in despair."

"This is what the Iron Torrent looks like."

……

[In the first two days of this round of Soviet offensive, the Soviets advanced towards the town of Borisov behind the German Army Group Center.]

[There was no significant resistance along the way.]

[At the same time, German Field Marshal Busch was dismissed and Model was appointed to lead the Central Army Group.]

[His defensive talent was highly valued by Hitler.]

【I hope he can save the front line that is about to collapse. 】

[The Soviet army's three fronts steadily advanced towards Minsk, and the German army began to retreat.]

[But the Soviets had already occupied all the crossings in advance, and the Germans only controlled one bridge.]

[Thousands of German motor vehicles, carts, and infantry assembled near the bridge.]

[According to the recollections of a German soldier afterwards.]

【There was chaos near the bridge.】

【Carts and motor vehicles huddled outside the driveway.】

【Everyone tried to squeeze onto the bridge first.】

[Some people were quarreling, cursing and pushing each other, and the military police were helpless.]

[As the Germans fled, the Soviet air force attacked, continuously dropping bombs on the retreating German columns.]

In Belarus in 1944, the war was like the summer of 1941.

[It’s just that now the roles are reversed, with the Germans acting as deserters.]

[They were crowded near the riverbank crossing and were attacked by air, ruthlessly annihilated and completely routed.]

Outside the sky.

Huo Qubing was in a very heavy mood.

Because he had admired the invincible German army before.

At this point it was not just a failure, but a tragic and complete rout.

On the sky, the German soldiers were fighting for the opportunity to cross the river.

There is no trace of the invincible blitzkrieg of three years ago that engulfed the vast territory and wiped out millions of Soviet troops in one breath.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it."

"The German army in World War II was so disciplined and incredibly powerful."

"At this moment, they are like a group of bandits."

"I can only say that times have changed... Alas, Germany is probably dead."

The sky continues.

[In order to cover the retreat of the infantry, the German High Command sent out air force units, which used the Belarusian Balcony as a base to attack the Soviet Union from the rear to contain Soviet tanks.]

【But under the Soviet Union's air superiority. 】

[The German heavy bombers' bombing during the day not only failed to achieve any tangible results, but also incurred huge losses.]

[At the end of the first week of the battle, the tank division urgently sent by the German army from Ukraine arrived in Belarus.]

[The German Fifth Armored Division, which received support, began to use tank ambush tactics in some front-line areas in an attempt to slow down the Soviet offensive.]

[The main tanks of the German army are Tiger and Panther tanks, which have excellent performance. ]

[However, the Soviet Union's T85-34 tank equipped with an 85mm caliber gun was enough to compete with the Tiger. ]

【After two days of tank battles, the Soviets suffered heavy losses.】

[The German army's tanks also dropped sharply from 159 to only 18. ]

[Although the German tanks successfully prevented the Soviet tank corps from advancing, they still could not form a solid line of defense.]

【Because they no longer have infantry. 】

[At dawn on July 7, tanks from the First and Third Belorussian Fronts launched a fierce attack on Minsk from the north and southeast, respectively.]

[In one fell swoop, they surrounded the remaining parts of the three German armies.] [And the Second Belorussian Front directly attacked the German infantry from the east.]

[It took the Soviet army a week to completely annihilate the German troops in Minsk and captured more than 35000 German officers and soldiers.]

[Including 12 German generals. ]

[In two weeks of fighting, the Soviets destroyed seven of the nine German armies, a total of 9 divisions and three brigades.]

[According to statistics, the German army lost more than 40 soldiers in the Belarus region, of which 15 were taken as prisoners of war.]

[Although the German armored divisions that were redeployed to Belarus did pose a serious threat to the Soviet army.]

[But after all, the main force of the German infantry had been defeated. ]

[The German tank forces could only temporarily delay the Red Army's attack.]

[The general offensive launched on June 6 ended in August.]

[The Soviet army reached the Prussian border east of the Vistula River and the Baltic coast.]

[The four fronts formed an offensive front more than 4 kilometers wide. ]

[The Soviet occupation zone was pushed forward by 550-600 kilometers overall.]

[It can be said that the results of the offensive even exceeded the highest expectations of the Soviet High Command.]

[Germany's Central Army Group was already in name only after this battle.]

[The Soviet army pointed its sword at East Prussia in Germany and the Polish capital Warsaw.

[The victory in this battle in Belarus was so amazing that some Western media doubted its authenticity.]

[Because Operation Bagration was supposedly launched to support the Normandy Landing.]

[As a result, the Soviet Union's achievements completely stole the limelight from the Allies. ]

[It is hard for many Western journalists to believe.]

【I think the Soviet Union is exaggerating its war achievements.】

[In order to prove the Soviet Union's great victory, the Soviet High Command decided to show this victory to the world in a unique way.]

Sui Dynasty.

When Yang Guang saw these Western reporters, he actually questioned the great achievements made by the Soviet Union.

I immediately became unhappy.

Because Yang Guang himself could bear the waste of manpower and money, and could withstand huge casualties.

Even tolerate temporary defeat.

But what Yang Guang could not tolerate was the slander of his own achievements.

If you have clearly achieved great success and obtained extraordinary results.

Then it was slandered and buried by those journalists and writers.

Then wouldn’t it be in vain that he has been the emperor?
Then wouldn’t our Grand Canal and our conquest of Goryeo have been in vain?
"Humph, I hope the Soviet Union can prove its achievements."

"Slap the Western journalists in the face."

"I just don't know how the Soviet Union will prove it."

【On July 1944, 7, in Moscow, an astonishing news began to spread. 】

【German troops entered Moscow! 】

【But in fact, it was German prisoners of war who entered Moscow. 】

[The unprecedented parade of German prisoners of war officially began. ]

[The German prisoners of war paraded this time were mainly those escorted to Moscow by the Belarusian Front.]

[A total of 57000 people, divided into 90 square formations, stretching over 3 kilometers. ]

[At the front of the team are 19 captured German generals, still wearing their uniforms and medals.]

【More than 1000 German officers followed closely behind.】

【And behind them are ordinary soldiers. 】

【For these German officers and soldiers, the war is over for them. 】

[German prisoners of war were paraded through the streets in front of the people of Moscow and journalists from all over the world.]

[After the parade was completed, the Soviet Union sent out water trucks to clean up the streets for a whole day and night.]

【Washed away the dirt on the streets.】

[This represents the complete removal of all traces of fascism from the roads of Moscow]

[Coincidentally, on August 8, a parade of more than 16 German prisoners of war was held in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.]

[The parade lasted for a full five hours.]

[A water truck was also dispatched to clean up the area.]

[These ironclad evidences prove the great success of the Soviet Army in Operation Bagration.]

[It also greatly shocked the Soviet people and foreign observers.]

[This prisoner parade was called "Green Embankment Spring Dawn".]

【It sent a message to the whole world.】

[That is, this war will end with the victory of the Soviet Union.] (End of this chapter)