Operation Spring Awakening
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Operation Spring Awakening 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 Op
German units during the operation, March 1945
German troops at the beginning of Operation Spring Awakening
Soviet counterattack
German casualties
Sepp Dietrich
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Josef "Sepp" Dietrich was a German general, politician and war criminal in the Schutzstaffel during the Nazi era.
Operation Spring Awakening
…Reich and 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen. These units were to be refitted by 30 January and attached to the 6th Panzer Army under the command of Sepp Dietrich for the upcoming Operation Spring Awakening. Hitler wanted to secure the extremely vital Nagykanizsa oil fields of southern Hungary, as these were the…
General Dietrich, 1944
Hitler with Dietrich in Berlin during the 1936 Summer Olympics
Dietrich in Greece, April 1941
Dietrich during the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945