Operation Bagration
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<entity_1> (/bʌɡrʌtiˈɒn/; Russian: Операция Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 <entity_5> Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation (Russian: Белорусская наступательная операция «Багратион», Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya Operatsiya Bagration) a military campaign fought between 23 <entity_4> and <entity_3> in <entity_5> Byelorussia in the <entity_0>. With the end of effective German resistance in Byelorussia, the <entity_5> offensive continued on to <entity_6>, <entity_9> and Romania over the course of July and August. The German High Command expected the next <entity_5> offensive to fall against Army Group North <entity_7> (Field Marshal Walter Model), while it lacked intelligence capabilities to divine the <entity_5> intentions. <entity_1>, in combination with the neighbouring Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive, launched a few weeks later in <entity_7>, allowed the <entity_5> to recapture Belorussia and <entity_7> within its 1941 borders, advance into German East Prussia, but more importantly, the Lvov-Sandomierz operation allowed the Red Army to reach the outskirts of Warsaw after gaining control of <entity_9> east of the Vistula river. The only safe option was an offensive into Belorussia which would enable subsequent offensives from <entity_7> into <entity_9> and Romania. The <entity_5> and German High Commands recognised western <entity_7> as a staging area for an offensive into <entity_9>. Once the offensive against Army Group Centre, which lacked mobile reserves and support, had been initiated, it would create a crisis in the central sector that would force the German armoured forces north to Belorussia from <entity_9> and Romania, despite the presence of powerful <entity_5> concentrations threatening German-occupied <entity_9>. Towards the beginning of <entity_4>, the German High Command, Army Group Center and the army commands had identified a large part of the concentration against Army Group Centre, although they still considered that the main operation would be against Army Group North <entity_7>. The start of <entity_1> involved many <entity_5> partisan formations in the <entity_2>, which were instructed to resume their attacks on railways and communications. Besides the pro-German and pro-<entity_5> forces, some third-party factions were also involved in the fighting during <entity_1>, most notably several resistance groups of the Polish Home Army. Because the initial offensive in <entity_8> was thought to be a feint, the Feste Plätze spanned the entire length of the <entity_0>. The Lublin-Brest Offensive was carried out by Marshal Rokossovsky's 1st Belorussian Front between 18 July and 2 August, and developed the initial gains of <entity_1> toward eastern <entity_9> and the Vistula. The Operation ended with the defeat of German Army Group North <entity_7> and <entity_5> bridgeheads over the Vistula river west of Sandomierz.
['military offensive']