Even after a week, it was clear that, like the Ardennes, this offensive also did not bring success to the Germans, so the Wehrmacht did not give up. But the main problem of the Germans was the competence disputes between the leaders of the three parties involved in the action and Hitler and Himmler, who obviously "knew better" ....

Even the US command was surprised by the exceptionally mediocre attitude of the SS armored units, which, as a result of commander mistakes, were unable to coordinate operations in difficult terrain. On some sections of the front, the armored units reached the battlefield two to three days later than the infantry, from which no longer had anything to collect.
