Spring Awakening and Upper Silesia: Episode 97

The #6 Top World War 2 podcast continues following the Red Army’s advance into Hungary and Germany—and the expensive failure of the German Operation Spring Awakening. 

Map 1: Front lines in Europe, 1 March 1945

 

 

Map 2: Operation Southwind/Sudwind 

 

Map 3a: German plans for Operation Spring Awakening 

Map 4: The Soviet counter-attack, The Lake Balaton counter-offensive 

 

 

Map 5: Following Operation Spring Awakening

 

Map 6: Upper Silesian locations in 2026 

 

Map 7: The front lines, Europe, 1 April 1945

 

People

Rodion Malinovsky

 

 

Fyodor Tolbukhin 

Heinz Guderian

 

Friedrich Schorner

 

Walther Nehring (right)