In March 1945, the Nazis made their last attempt to turn the tide of the war by launching a counterattack in the area of Lake Balaton. The best tank forces of the III Reich were concentrated here - the SS divisions "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler", "Reich", "Totenkopf", "Viking" and others, staffed by convinced Nazis and armed with the latest armored vehicles (a total of up to 900 tanks and self-propelled guns ). Whereas for the Red Army this direction remained secondary, so the troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front had to repel the German counter-offensive on their own, without counting on reinforcements from the Headquarters reserve, which were necessary for the decisive assault on Berlin, relying only on their own skill and rich combat experience. And our troops completed this task with honor, stopping an avalanche of German tanks, inflicting a decisive defeat on the enemy and huge irreparable losses. The defeat of the 6th SS Panzer Army became a real disaster for Germany, and Balaton became the grave of the Panzerwaffe. In the book of leading Russian historians, this grandiose battle was described and analyzed for the first time at a modern level, using data from both Soviet and German archives. The book was also published under entitled “The defeat of the 6th SS Panzer Army. Panzerwaffe grave."