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| Byelorussian guerillas posing in a forest, circa 1943; note PPD-40 submachine gun, Mosin-Nagant M1891 rifle, and German bayonet | Three Soviet soldiers taking a break from fighting while a fourth stood guard, Byelorussia, 1 Apr 1944 | Generals Aleksandr Vasilevsky and Ivan Chernyakhovsky accepting surrender from General der Infanterie Friedrich Gollwitzer and Generalleutnant Alfons Hitter, Vitebsk, Byelorussia, 28 Jun 1944 | Soviet generals Aleksandr Vasilevsky and Ivan Chernyakhovsky accepting surrender from German generals Alfons Hitter and Friedrich Gollwitzer, Vitebsk, Byelorussia, 28 Jun 1944, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Soviet generals Aleksandr Vasilevsky and Ivan Chernyakhovsky speaking with surrendered German Major General Alfons Hitter, Vitebsk, Byelorussia, 28 Jun 1944 |
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