The Ministry of defense published declassified documents about the liberation of Belgrade, you can learn from them about the fact that German troops were going to blow up all the critical elements of the city's infrastructure and cultural facilities.

The Belgrade strategic offensive operation was over 75 years ago, on 20 October 1944.

"before the storming of Belgrade was further evidence of the Nazi command intended to turn the Yugoslav capital in solid debris. The elimination was prepared by the government and administrative buildings, historical monuments, fortress, water and sewage networks, power station, river port ", - reported in the report of the Department of information and mass communications Department.

Mine was doing the military of the 3rd Ukrainian front, who liberated the Belgrade.

With episodes of storming and clearing of the hotel "Albania" and Kalemegdan fortress can be found in the war diary of the 11-th separate assault engineering sapper brigade.

"The Germans knocked out our tank, when not ended the fighting, and residents painted this tank with flowers, colorful ribbons and made it a phrase:" Givi Marshal Stalin, Givi Marshal Tito!", - leads the Ministry of defense of political dispatches the 57th army of the 3rd Ukrainian front.



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