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A second German 'spoiling' attack, was planned to destroy
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19:Operation Doppelkopf
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863:Operation Bagration
859:Ĺ iauliai Offensives
845:Strategic situation
833:Operation Bagration
534:OstrogozhskâRossosh
435:BarvenkovoâLozovaya
215:Hovhannes Bagramyan
197:Ivan Chernyakhovsky
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985:XXXIX Panzer Corps
729:Western Carpathian
669:2nd JassyâKishinev
639:1st JassyâKishinev
624:LeningradâNovgorod
619:DnieperâCarpathian
1374:Conflicts in 1944
1353:978-3-8132-0259-5
1338:Third Panzer Army
1317:978-1-78039-287-5
1295:, Da Capo, 2005,
1293:Panzer Operations
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140:Soviet Union
110:Belligerents
101:Inconclusive
1334:Erhard Raus
1248:Ziemke 2002
1233:Ziemke 2002
1221:Ziemke 2002
1209:Ziemke 2002
1168:Ziemke 2002
1141:Ziemke 2002
1058:by midday.
1051:Prinz Eugen
969:Erhard Raus
942:Deployments
556:Gorky Blitz
551:3rd Kharkov
467:2nd Kharkov
369:1st Kharkov
364:Sea of Azov
179:Erhard Raus
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1363:Categories
1257:References
838:Doppelkopf
680:2nd Baltic
675:Dukla Pass
662:Doppelkopf
634:2nd Crimea
578:2nd Donbas
568:1st Donbas
545:Polar Star
495:Stalingrad
379:Sevastopol
374:1st Crimea
317:1st Baltic
301:Barbarossa
278:Baltic Sea
1129:Footnotes
1086:Aftermath
1020:(General
1009:(General
987:(General
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967:(General
948:Wehrmacht
936:Tauroggen
705:Gumbinnen
650:Bagration
489:Sinyavino
473:Case Blue
358:Leningrad
283:Black Sea
1290:Raus, E.
1267:(2007).
1110:See also
1067:Ĺ iauliai
1000:Red Army
926:and the
904:Courland
898:Planning
750:Solstice
710:Budapest
700:Courland
690:Debrecen
685:Belgrade
607:2nd Kiev
479:Caucasus
452:Demyansk
413:Chechnya
347:1st Kiev
59:Western
55:Location
24:Part of
932:LiepÄja
744:Breslau
739:Silesia
644:Karelia
596:Dnieper
462:Bamberg
403:Finland
352:Tallinn
125:Germany
73:23°10â˛E
70:55°50â˛N
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908:German
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788:Prague
782:Berlin
771:Vienna
588:Lenino
430:Lyuban
395:Moscow
384:Rostov
342:Odessa
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98:Result
61:Latvia
1104:Memel
1035:KelmÄ
912:Mitau
823:were
629:Narva
602:Nevel
562:Kursk
528:Iskra
457:Kholm
441:Rzhev
408:Kerch
389:Gorky
322:Brody
307:Brest
1349:ISBN
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1063:Riga
920:14th
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521:1943
507:Mars
424:1942
337:Uman
294:1941
47:Date
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