Army Group Centre (German language: Heeresgruppe Mitte)- Commander Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock. 
13th Army (Soviet Union) - Lieutenant (General P.
(including 6th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) ). (including 6th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)). 3rd Army (Soviet Union) - V.I.Kuznetsov. Western Front - Commander Army General Pavlov, Operations Officer General I.V. It was the OKH that undertook it successfully, severing most of the Soviet Western Front's forces from other Soviet fronts in a twin encirclement, centred on Białystok and Navahrudak, to the west of Minsk. The forward placement of both German and Soviet forces in a double-bulge position enabled both sides to try the double envelopment. The Red Army disposition in Belarus was based on the idea of an aggressive response to a German attack, carrying the war into German-occupied Poland, but suffered from weakness along the flanks, created by the line of demarcation placement following the division of Poland in 1939. All together, the Soviet Western Front had 25 rifle and cavalry divisions, 13 tank and 7 motorized divisions. The 13th Army was held as part of the Stavka High Command Reserve and initially existed as a headquarters unit only, with no assigned forces. It included the 3rd, 4th, and 10th Armies along the frontier. Army Group Center could call upon Luftflotte 2 for air support.įacing Army Group Center was the Red Army's Western Front commanded by General of the Army Dmitry Pavlov. The two infantry Armies fielded 33 divisions and the Panzer Armies fielded nine armored divisions, six motorized divisions and a cavalry division. Its armored forces were Hoth's 3rd Panzer Group and Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group. 
The Army Group included the 9th and 4th Armies. Commanded by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Army Group Centre was tasked with attacking from Poland through the Białystok - Minsk - Smolensk axis towards Moscow.
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