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The Nazi attack petered out by January when it finally ended, the front lines were almost the same as they had been in December. But the battle of the bulge cost Hitler nearly a quarter of a million men. A big chunk of his armor and all hope of defending Germany against the coming attacks from both the east and west. The American airborne's last hurrah in Europe came in March 24th, 1945. That day, paratroops and glider infantry of the 17th airborne landed in Wessel, Germany. It was the biggest Allied airborne operation of the war with nearly 1700 transports and tow planes and over 1500 gliders. It took almost three hours to land all the men for many German soldiers frostbite emerged as an unexpected crippling foe. S General Eike reported back to headquarters that conditions were so bad. Soldiers in his death's hand division were actually wounding themselves to escape further military service, particularly frustrated among his ranks were ethnic Germans, soldiers of German culture and language who came from outside of Germany. But native Germans themselves were beginning to feel the bleakness of the Russian campaign Since entering the Soviet ***** four months earlier, the hand division had suffered almost 9000 casualties, more than half its initial strength. Meanwhile back in Berlin Hitler discussed his plans for Russia.