Gmina Rokitno | County Biała Podlaska County Local time Sunday 2:20 AM | |
 | ||
Weather 3°C, Wind N at 21 km/h, 85% Humidity | ||
Pratulin [praˈtulʲin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rokitno, within Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.
Map of Pratulin, Poland
During "Operation Barbarossa" this forest was a staging point for the German 17th Panzer Division. At 3:30am on June 22, 1941 German Panzer and motorized troops decamped from this area, crossing the Bug river and attacking Soviet occupied Eastern Poland.
References
Pratulin Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA