Dlaczego skończyła się klęską ostatnia ofensywa Rzeszy nad jeziorem Balaton

On March 6, 1945, in Hungary, between Lake Balaton and Lake Velence, Operation Spring Awakening—the Wehrmacht's last major offensive of World War II—began. Hitler sent his last strategic reserve, Sepp Dietrich's Sixth SS Panzer Army, not to Berlin but to pursue Hungarian oil. Spring thaw, fuel shortages, and Marshal Tolbukhin's deep-pocketed defense turned the elite SS divisions' attack into a disaster: the "King Tigers" sank into mud and were abandoned without a fight. Based on archival documents and casualty reports, we analyze how and why the Balaton offensive fizzled, the blunders at Berlin, and the fall of Vienna.