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Georg Otto Hermann Balck (7 December 1893 – 29 November 1982) was a highly decorated officer of the German Army who served in both World War I and World War II, rising to the rank of General der Panzertruppe.
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.
Command passed to General Hermann Balck on 23 December 1944. [29] In December 1944, one of the 6th Army's subordinate units, the IX SS Mountain Corps , was encircled in Budapest . [ 30 ] IV SS Panzer Corps was transferred to the 6th Army's command [ 31 ] and a series of relief attempts, codenamed Operation Konrad , was launched during the 46 ...
The Dirlewanger Brigade, also known as the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger (1944), [1] or the 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (German: 36. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS), or The Black Hunters (German: Die schwarzen Jäger), [2] was a unit of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
The rank was equivalent to the long established General der Kavallerie, General der Artillerie and General der Infanterie.The Wehrmacht also introduced General der Gebirgstruppe (mountain troops), General der Pioniere (engineers), General der Fallschirmtruppe (parachute troops), General der Flieger (aviators), General der Nachrichtentruppe (communications troops) and General der ...
Hermann Balck is not one of the better-known German generals of World War II. This is probably because most of his career as a general officer was on the Eastern front, although he had a brief period of acting command of the XIV Panzer Corps in the Battle of Salerno in 1943, and halted Patton's advance in the Battle of Metz in 1944.
General Balck may refer to: Hermann Balck (1893–1982), German Wehrmacht general; Viktor Balck (1844–1928), Swedish Army major general;
Operation Spark (sometimes translated as "Operation Flash") was the code name for the planned assassination of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler by the anti-Nazi conspiracy of German Army officers and political conservatives, known as the Schwarze Kapelle ("black orchestra") during World War II.