Belarus is marshlands and forests, rather than plains. This is why it was a "Bandit Country" for the Germans during WWII, with all the Partisan Republics in the swamps and the woods. This is also why they killed or deported all these villagers in the huge Anti-Bandit operations (Hitler's Bandit Hunters is a pretty good book).
You're confused and you really think of Ukraine and the great steppe. Where even a small hill is incredibly strategic, like the manmade Savur Mohyla where they just fought for it for months and during WWII they have even fought for it for even longer, something ridicalous like over 1 year.
Belarus is marshlands and forests, rather than plains. This is why it was a "Bandit Country" for the Germans during WWII, with all the Partisan Republics in the swamps and the woods. This is also why they killed or deported all these villagers in the huge Anti-Bandit operations (Hitler's Bandit Hunters is a pretty good book).
You're confused and you really think of Ukraine and the great steppe. Where even a small hill is incredibly strategic, like the manmade Savur Mohyla where they just fought for it for months and during WWII they have even fought for it for even longer, something ridicalous like over 1 year.
Also Kazakhstan, but that isn’t so relevant to WW2, or “Europe” per se…
But it’s more what OP is thinking of, re “great plains”… 🤷🏻♂️