“Where is Wenk?!” - this hysterical cry became the leitmotif of the agony of the Third Reich. At the end of April 1945, even the most fanatical Nazis had no doubt that their regime was living its last days. Only one person has not yet lost hope. His name was Adolf Hitler, and the Fuhrer's last hope was General Walter Wenck, commander of the 12th Army, who received orders - no less than anything - to release Berlin, throw back the Red Army and turn the tide of the war. Hitler did not know - or, rather, did not want to know , - that behind the big words “Wenck’s army”, “corps”, “divisions”, “tank destroyer brigade” were hidden the pitiful remnants of previously defeated German units, where even teenagers from the Hitler Youth were drafted, most of the recruits had no combat training, there was not enough weapons and ammunition, many units received the nickname Bauchabteilungen (“stomach battalions”), since they gathered goons suffering from stomach diseases, and most importantly, no one believed in victory. The counterattack of the 12th Army on Berlin was doomed to failure in advance, Hitler’s last hope turned out to be an empty mirage, and his desperate dying call: “Where is Wenck?!” - was never heard...