PC/AHC: Could Bagration have rolled further?

I think no since they ran away from their supplylines, but if Sjukov could reach 200 km more then his troops liberate Auschwitz in August or September of 1944 instead of January 1945 and saves hundreds of thousands of people including those who are sent on deathmarches since those who die of cold will be alive becauce of the weather
 
In terms of territorial gains? Not really. Their supply lines were too stretched at this point and a pause so the railheads could be extended forward was very much a necessity. It might have been able to achieve more by sealing and destroying Army Group North along the Baltic coast, but that would have ultimately been a superfluous addition since AGN wound-up doing nothing of note in the Courland peninsula for the rest of the war anyways.

Something else that is conceivable is that the Soviets might have been able to conduct Vistula-Oder Offensive faster then they did historically, albeit at the cost of a slower advance into Hungary.
 
Well AGN did achieve something by tying down several Soviet Armies to contain it. If it's destroyed in 1944 then the Soviets have more firepower to throw against Berlin, the war may have ended in March/April 1945.
 
I think no since they ran away from their supplylines, but if Sjukov could reach 200 km more then his troops liberate Auschwitz in August or September of 1944 instead of January 1945 and saves hundreds of thousands of people including those who are sent on deathmarches since those who die of cold will be alive becauce of the weather

Just curious, when did the Soviets liberate the first camp, when did they find out about the Holocaust?

Also, an even more successful Bagration may inadvertently aid the Warsaw Uprising, if said uprising is a little better-timed.
 
Just curious, when did the Soviets liberate the first camp, when did they find out about the Holocaust?

The first camp taken was Treblinka on August 16th 1944, although the Germans had largely killed it's inmates and demolished the installations. Majdanek was the second, fell just a few days later, and it was taken so suddenly that the Germans didn't have time to do what they did at Treblinka.

As for when the Soviets found out about the holocaust? Pretty much from shortly after it began. Much of the Eisantzgruppen activity in the East was invariably tied up with German "anti-partisan" operations, all of which were just euphemisms for genocide against the population of the European USSR. The prime difference between the Russian view of the holocaust and the western view is that the Russian's don't focus as much on the Jewish aspect of it. For them, the Jews were just one of several groups of victims in the holocaust and not foremost among the victims like it is in the Western view.
 
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