⚔️📍 Ardennes, Belgium and Luxembourg1944
Battle of the Bulge — German Offensive Crumbles
With Allied forces pressing in from all sides and German fuel supplies exhausted, Hitler finally authorized withdrawal from the Ardennes salient. The battle that had created the largest American engagement of WWII was ending in German defeat.
The Bulge consumed Germany's last strategic reserves; with no more offensive capability, Germany faced only the question of how long it could survive Allied advances from east and west.
Outcome
German withdrawal; last offensive capability destroyed