ALLIES SHUT DOWN GERMANY’S NORDWIND, OPEN OWN OFFENSIVE
SHAEF HQ, Versailles, France • January 29, 1945 On this date in 1945 Allied armies in Western Europe returned to the offensive after having shut down Nazi Germany’s Operation Nordwind (German, Unternehmen Nordwind) 4 days earlier. Nordwind was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front. It began on the last day…