In his Berlin bunker in February 1945, an all out offensive led by six waffen-SS panzer division to secure Hungarys oil fields seemed very logical to Adolf Hitler. Almost to a man, however, the Fuhrers generals thought it was madness. Huge Soviet armies were at the time on the eastern bank of the river Oder, less than 160Km from Berlin itself.

The SS divisions started concentrating in Hungary in december 1944, after a Soviet offensive had pushed deep into the country and surrounded its capital Budapest.
