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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
THE DOCUMENTS from the RF Foreign Ministry Historical Documents Department made public for the first time relate to one of the little-known pages of the Great Patriotic War. According to the documents, the 70th Army of the 2nd Byelorussian Front under Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky seized the town of Prenzlau on April 27, 1945 during the course of the Berlin operation. Later in the day the army freed the inmates of the concentration camp, a short way from the town. Among the POWs were 2,311 officers of the Belgian army, including 33 generals.
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