Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...105s, met the 2nd and 69th Infantry Divisions fighting their way in. The doughboys mopped up resistance, except for a nest of Germans, including the garrison commander holed up in the huge, red granite "Battle of the Nations" monument (a memorial to the defeat of Napoleon by a Prussian-Austrian-Russian-Swedish coalition...
...PRISONER - Ernst Lothar -Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). In a U.S. prison camp an Austrian P.O.W. faces death at the hands of his fellow prisoners when he reveals the story of his own betrayal by Nazi false witness and treachery. Convincing disillusionment with plenty of suspense in the telling...
...Italy the Nazi commander. Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff, had watched the Russians closing his Austrian escape routes, but made no move to pull out. His supplies of fuel and transport were low. No one knew better than he that once he took to the roads Allied airmen could cut his columns to bits. Here he must stand and fight...
Down the swank Avenida Alvear marched two blue-uniformed police. Of all improbable places, they stopped at the home of Sr. Federico (Fritz) Mandl, Austrian-born, Argentine-naturalized munitions magnate, arrested him "by order of the President," and whisked him off to Buenos Aires' gloomy Grenadier's Barracks. Simultaneously, the Government decreed the expropriation of IMPA, Mandl's ambitious arms factory. It was the most astonishing event in Argentina's busy week...
When the Colonels staged their June 1943 revolution, Fritz polished his military contacts, wangled a reputed $50,000,000 munitions order. But the ex-Austrian was hobbled first by a materials shortage, later by U.S. and British blacklisting. President Edelmiro Farrell and Vice President Juan Peron, tired of Mandl's steady drain on the Treasury, grew more & more dissatisfied with the trickle of cartridges, rifles, hand-grenades and gliders that came from the Mandl factory...