The Bobruysk Offensive and the Destruction of the German Ninth Army

The Bobruysk Offensive and the Destruction of the German Ninth Army
With Prit Buttar
Operation Bagration Week
   • Operation Bagration  
Part of our ongoing Eastern Front series on WW2TV
   • Eastern Front Week  
Also part of our 80th Anniversary Series
   • 80th Anniversary Special  

The Bobruysk offensive was part of the Belorussian strategic offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944, commonly known as Operation Bagration. In less than a week in late June 1944, the Soviet 3rd Army broke through in the north of the sector, trapping the German XXXV Corps against the Berezina. The 65th Army then broke through the XXXXI Panzer Corps to the south; by 27 June, the two German corps were encircled in a pocket east of Bobruysk under constant aerial bombardment. During this offensive, the German 9th Army suffered nearly 80,000 casualties during Bagration of which 65,000 were taken prisoner. Nearly 40% of the 9th Army was destroyed in the summer of 1944. The army was then rebuilt by German units redeployed from Italy and was involved in the defence of Warsaw in autumn and winter of 1944.

Prit's previous appearances:
80th Anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad
https://youtube.com/live/8ewC3fzCpiA
80th Anniversary of Operation Iskra - Leningrad, January 1943
https://www.youtube.com/live/PZ8UgiNc...
Zhukov's Disastrous Rzhev/Sychevka Campaigns
https://www.youtube.com/live/yIQ4U447...
The Vyazma Airborne Operation (Red Army Paratroops)
https://www.youtube.com/live/pG02ehf-...
6 Panzer Division at Verkhne Kumsky - Operation Winter Storm
https://www.youtube.com/live/nQLqL9_3...
The Lithuanian Holocaust. Murderers, heroes, and victims
https://www.youtube.com/live/aVX3LpjU...

Prit's books:
Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43
UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/978147...
USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97814728...

To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941–42 by Prit Buttar
UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/978147...
USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97814728...

Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943
UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/978147...
USA hardback https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97814728...
USA paperback https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97814728...

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