{"id":6072,"date":"2016-07-05T12:33:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T18:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2016-07-05T12:33:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T18:33:13","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-3-9-july-1944-liberation-of-minsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6072","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 3&#8211;9 July 1944: Liberation of Minsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6068\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=6068\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6068\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6068\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6068\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/WMinskT34-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet T34 tank entering Minsk, early July 1944 [Public domain]\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/WMinskT34-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/WMinskT34-145x150.jpg 145w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/WMinskT34.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soviet T34 tank entering Minsk, early July 1944 [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on 3 July 1944, troops of Marshal Rokossovsky&#8217;s 1st and General Chernyakhovsky&#8217;s 3rd Belorussian fronts entered Minsk, the capital city of Belorussia. The German occupation of Minsk, which\u00a0had lasted for three years, was finally over.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the 40 divisions of Germany&#8217;s Army Group Centre were encircled. Army Group North, located in the Baltic states, was at risk of being cut off.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with the collapse of his armies on the Eastern Front, Hitler would soon leave the Berghof near Berchtesgaden and fly to his Wolfsschanze headquarters in East Prussia, which was nearer to the centre of the action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the war, on 3 July 1944, troops of Marshal Rokossovsky&#8217;s 1st and General Chernyakhovsky&#8217;s 3rd Belorussian fronts entered Minsk, the capital city of Belorussia. The German occupation of Minsk, which\u00a0had lasted for three years, was finally over. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6072\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1000,999],"class_list":["post-6072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-army-group-centre","tag-minsk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}