Editing Operation Spring Awakening (section)

=== Arrival into the Hungarian theater ===
When withdrawing from the Western Front, elements of the [[III. Flakkorps|III. Flak-Korps]] were tasked with protecting the 6th SS Panzer Army while en route to [[Zossen]] south of Berlin.<ref name=":15" /> From here the units' possible de-training locations would seem to be the cities along the [[Oder|Oder River]], however this was a calculated misinformation measure to confuse enemy forces who actually attacked these cities.<ref name=":18">{{Cite book|last=Maier|first=Georg|title=Drama Between Budapest and Vienna|publisher=J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, Inc.|year=2004|isbn=0-921991-78-9|location=Canada|pages=116}}</ref> The real plan for the units of 6th SS Panzer Army was to travel south through Vienna to their first Hungarian destination, the city of [[Győr]] and its surrounding area.<ref name=":18" /> Other units from other armies were also sent to the Hungarian theater, for example the [[16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS|16th SS Panzer Grenadier Division Reichsführer-SS]] who was brought up from [[Italy]] through the [[Brenner Pass|Brenner]] straight and sent to the 2nd Panzer Army.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Maier|first=Georg|title=Drama Between Budapest and Vienna|publisher=J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, Inc.|year=2004|isbn=0-921991-78-9|location=Canada|pages=124}}</ref> Some units necessary for the major offensive did not arrive in Hungary until just a few days before its start, the last being the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen arriving in Győr at the beginning of March.<ref name=":20">{{Cite book|last=Maier|first=Georg|title=Drama Between Budapest and Vienna|publisher=J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, Inc.|year=2004|isbn=0-921991-78-9|location=Canada|pages=155}}</ref> Many of the incoming units also received cover names to help further mask the build-up of forces from the enemy.
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
! colspan="3" |Cover Names<ref>{{Cite book|last=Maier|first=Georg|title=Drama Between Budapest and Vienna|publisher=J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, Inc.|year=2004|isbn=0-921991-78-9|location=Canada|pages=125}}</ref>
|-
|Unit
|Official name
|Cover name
|-
|6th SS Panzer Army HQ
| HQ
|Higher Pioneer Leader Hungary
|-
|1st SS Panzer Division
|Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
|SS replacement unit "Totenkopf"
|-
|2nd SS Panzer Division
|Das Reich
|SS training group North
|-
|9th SS Panzer Division
|Hohenstaufen
|SS training group South
|-
|12th SS Panzer Division
|Hitlerjugend
|SS replacement unit "Wiking"
|-
|16th SS Panzer Gren. Division
|Reichsführer-SS
|13th SS Division replacement group
|}

By 7 February, on orders of Hitler, strict secrecy rulings were put into place: death penalty for command infractions, license plates were to be covered, insignia on vehicles and uniforms to be covered, no reconnaissance in forward combat areas, unit movements only by night or overcast conditions, no radio traffic, and the units were not to appear on situation maps.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Maier|first=Georg|title=Drama Between Budapest and Vienna|publisher=Drama Between Budapest and Vienna|year=2004|isbn=0-921991-78-9|location=Canada|pages=419}}</ref>

Prior to these measures, on 30 January, 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte was ordered to follow many of the same secrecy measures, including the temporary removal of their cuff titles.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Maier|first=Georg|title=Drama Between Budapest and Vienna|publisher=J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, Inc.|year=2004|isbn=0-921991-78-9|location=Canada|pages=425}}</ref>