German troops kept destroying Minsk while preparing for defense, WWII archives reveal
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On March 8, 1944, Hitler assigned the status of a stronghold to Minsk and issued orders to create long-term fire emplacements in the city. For their construction, the Nazis decided to use building materials from nearby buildings and for this purpose began to blow them up, it said