 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna March 1945, pashure pokuwa kweBudapest, 6th Panzer Army yakatanga imwe yekurwisa kwekupedzisira kweGerman yehondo, Operation Frühlingserwachen kutenderedza Lake Balaton. Uyu wakanga uri muedzo wokudzivirira manyuko okupedzisira epetroleum aidzorwa navaGermany. Kurwisa kwacho kwakanga kusina kushamisika, asi mutungamiri weSoviet Front Fyodor Tolbukhin akaziva nezvekuvapo kwezvikwata zveSS zvepamusoro, pasi pemirairo yakananga kubva kuSTAVKA Tolbukhin akarayirwa kushandisa masimba mashoma kurwisa maSS kusvikira kurwisa kwakagadziriswa kuchamhembe kweLake Balaton. Musi waMarch 16 3rd Ukrainian Front yakatanga kurwisa kwayo kukuru uye Joseph Goebbels akabvuma mubhuku rake roupenyu kuti kukundikana kwaigona kuitika. Mazuva matatu gare gare, vaGermany vakadzoserwa kunzvimbo dzavo dzokutanga. Zvikamu zve1st, 2nd, 9th, uye 12th SS Panzer zvikamu zvakaderedzwa kusvika pamakumi matatu nematatu emotokari dzehondo dzehondo dzinoshanda musi waKurume 15, 1945, nepo Army Group South seyakazara yakachengetedza matangi makumi manomwe nemaviri anoshanda uye pfuti dzekurwisa musi waKurume 16, 1945. 