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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.
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.
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
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 division, along with the majority of the SS Panzer units available, was to take part in Operation Spring Awakening, the offensive near Lake Balaton, which was aimed at relieving the forces encircled in Budapest by the Red Army. [21] The attack got under way on 6 March 1945.
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).
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After the operation's failure, the corps returned to the defensive, seeing action against U.S. forces in the Eifel region. In February 1945, the corps was ordered to Hungary to take part in an offensive to recapture Budapest and the Hungarian oilfields. The corps took part in Operation Spring Awakening, launched near Lake Balaton on 6