1944年夏天在白俄罗斯发动的进攻

is the one of the biggest battles of the Second World War

是二次大战最大型的战役之一

The eastern front is a thousand kilometers wide

东部战线宽一千公里

But the Russians are able to put forward a hundred kilometers within two months

但苏军能够在两个月内推进数百公里

destroying 17 German Army divisions

摧毁17个师德军

The Wehrmacht retreats towards east Prussia leaving behind many thousands of casualties

德军往东普鲁士撤退，留下数千名伤亡人员

Some 15 thousand captured Germans will be paraded through Moscow

5万名的军战俘将在莫斯科游街示众

二战启示录

In the west the Allies are gaining the uphand

在西线，盟军逐渐占上风

For the Mehrmacht the situation is deteriorating

对德军来说，情况愈来愈糟

Fifty thousand German soldiers are taken prisoner in Falaise pocket

5万名德国土兵，在法来兹口袋包围战中被俘

or as Germans call it "Stalingrad in Normandy"

或德军口中的“诺曼底的斯大林格勒”

It is a much needed victory for the Allies

盟军很需要这场胜利

The Allies tighten their noose with the new landing in Provence

盟军以登陆普罗旺斯乘胜追击

The reassembled French Army plays a major part in this landing

重组的法国军队在这次登陆扮演重要角色

Africans, Moroccans, Algerians, Tunisians, French colonials

非洲、摩洛哥、阿尔及利亚、突尼西亚、法国殖民地

and young French men who were a part of the free French forces aid the liberation in Provence

以及隶属自由法国军队的年轻法国士兵协助解放了普罗旺斯

It takes them just two weeks to liberate entire coast after Marseille

他们只花两周就直达马赛的整个海岸

The resistance movement comes out of the shadows and participates in the Liberation

抵抗运动化暗为明，并参与解放行动

as it will do in Paris

之后在巴黎也是如此

Paris rises up

巴黎人起义

Barricades were erected across the city

在城市各处设立路障

Most of the German army has retreated to the east

大多数德军已撤往东部

But the 20 thousand men remain behind under the command of Genernal Von Choltitz

但冯寇提兹将军旗下仍有两万名士兵

who has received order from Hitler to destroy the city

希特勒命令他摧毁巴黎

A violent fighting breaks out

双方爆发激战

On the fourth day of insurrection

起义第四天

a French unit Genernal Leclerc's second armored division arrives from Normandy

法国勒克莱尔将军的第二装甲师从诺曼底抵达巴黎

and the capital is finally liberated in the next morning

隔天早上巴黎终于获得解放