Answer:
Faced certain defeat
Explanation:
In the second half of 1944, Germany was in a critical position. Soviet troops in the east and Allied forces in the west successfully developed offensive operations. The German command decided to carry out a counterattack on the western front in order to try to get out of this difficult situation.
In planning a counteroffensive, the German command chose for it the most vulnerable places in the Allied defense - the weakly covered Ardennes section of the front. These were hills covered with dense forests in the Ardennes, where Luxembourg, Germany, and Belgium connect. An attack from these sectors of the front in a northwestern direction to Antwerp was to cut off the entire British army group, as well as the American troops in the regions of Aachen, from the forces of the allies operating in France. The purpose of the operation, as it was stated in the Hitler’s directive of November 10, 1944, was that by destroying the enemy’s forces north of the Antwerp-Brussels-Luxembourg line, a decisive turn in the course of the war in the West and, possibly, of the war as a whole, will be achieved.
However, despite the suddenness and initial successes achieved, plans for the German offensive began to be violated already in the early days of the operation. As a result of the urgent measures taken by the Allied command, German troops were deprived of the opportunity to develop an attack on Antwerp. They suffered heavy losses. The German strike in the Ardennes area thwarted the Allied plans for a major offensive at the end of 1944. However, the main goal of the counterattack was not achieved.
