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Operation Spring Awakening (German: Unternehmen Frühlingserwachen) was the last major German offensive of World War II. The operation was referred to in Germany as the Plattensee Offensive and in the Soviet Union as the Balaton Defensive Operation. It took place in Western Hungary on the Eastern Front and lasted from 6 March until 15 March 1945.
Frühlingserwachen ("Spring Awakening") (1945) — counterattack against Soviets in Hungary. Last major offensive on Eastern Front. Hannibal (1945) — evacuation of East Prussia; Joseph (1944) — proposal to destroy electricity supplies to Moscow; Konrad (1945) — German-Hungarian efforts to relieve the encircled garrison in Budapest
The Battle of the Transdanubian Hills (also known in Bulgaria as the Drava Operation (Bulgarian: Дравска операция, Dravska operatsiya)) was a defensive operation of the Bulgarian First Army during Bulgaria's participation in World War II against German Wehrmacht forces, who were trying to capture the north bank of the Drava river as part of Operation Spring Awakening.
Operation Spring Awakening (6 March 1945 – 16 March 1945) was the last major German offensive launched during World War II. It began in great secrecy on 6 March 1945. The German forces launched attacks in Hungary near Lake Balaton. This area included some of the last oil reserves still available to the Axis.
The SS: 1923–1945. Amber Books. ISBN 978-1-906626-49-5. Reynolds, Michael (1999). Men of Steel: I SS Panzer Corps, the Ardennes and Eastern Front 1944–45: The Story of the 1st and 12th SS Panzer Divisions in the Ardennes and on the Eastern Front in 1944 and 1945. Staplehurst: Spellmount. ISBN 978-1-86227-051-0. Reynolds, Michael (2007).
German forces on the Eastern Front launched Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war. At Soviet insistence, King Michael of Romania installed Petru Groza as Prime Minister of Romania. [11] Soviet authorities began to arrest or kill anyone associated with the Polish Home Army or the Polish government-in-exile in ...
Operation Spring Awakening (offensive operation on the Hungarian part of the Eastern front with the goal of recapturing Budapest, while simultaneously defending the Nagykanizsa oil fields south of Lake Balaton) Projected German administrative divisions in occupied eastern territories:
Operation Southwind (German: Unternehmen Südwind) was a German offensive operation on the Eastern Front in Hungary, [a] from 17–24 February 1945. The Germans succeeded in eliminating the Soviet bridgehead on the west bank of the river Hron in preparation for Operation Spring Awakening .