German army POW march in Moscow 1944

March of the captured Germans in Moscow (also “Parade of the Defeated“, operation “The Great Waltz“) was held on Monday, July 17, 1944. Approximately 57,000 German soldiers and officers, mostly captured in Byelorussia by the troops of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Byelorussian Fronts, marched along the Garden Ring and other streets of the capital. During Operation Bagration in the summer of 1944, it was routed German Army Group Center. About 400,000 soldiers and officers were killed or captured. These losses were mu