88% of Their Tanks Went South. Then 28 German Divisions Fell
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THE VERDICT - Operation Bagration<br><br>Operation start: 22 June 1944. (Wikipedia, Operation Bagration)<br>Army Group Centre strength: about 849,000 men, 495 working tanks and assault guns. (Wikipedia, Operation Bagration)<br>Tanks lost to the 20 May transfer: 88% of the army group's tanks. (Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin (US Army))<br>Partisan rail demolitions, night of 19-20 June: about 10,500 charges. (Wikipedia, Minsk offensive)<br>Vitebsk pocket: Fifty-Third Corps, about 30,000 men lost. (Wikipedia, Vitebsk-Orsha offensive)<br>Divisions lost: 25 in the first 12 days, 28 in total. (Ziemke; Wikipedia)<br>German losses: 300,000 to 450,000 casualties, estimates vary. (Zaloga; Frieser; Glantz and House)<br>Moscow prisoner march: 17 July 1944, about 57,000 men. (Wikipedia, Parade of the Vanquished)
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