'Spätlese' (ii) was a German unrealised operation planned by the Oberkommando des Heeres for General Hermann Breith’s III Panzerkorps of General Hermann Balck’s 6^th Army within Generaloberst Johannes Friessner’s (from 28 December General Otto Wöhler Heeresgruppe 'Süd' to move on a south-eastern axis between Lake Balaton and Lake Velencze (17 December 1944).

The move by the III Panzerkorps, which comprised Generalleutnant Wilhelm Philipps’s 3^rd Panzerdivision, Oberst Friedrich-Wilhelm Jürgens’s 6^th Panzerdivision, Generalmajor Gottfried Frölich’s 8^th Panzerdivision and three Panther battle tank battalions, could not be made as the operational premise of which it had been based had been rendered obsolete by the continued advance of Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza Fyedor I. Tolbukhin’s 3^rd Ukrainian Front.