Word: bastion
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...Germans admitted that such a linking of the Allies could take place any day; they prepared for it by setting up two autonomous defense zones in the two-fifths of Germany they have left. For the southern zone, including the Nazi "redoubt," or Alpine bastion, command was vested in a triumvirate: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring; Gestapo boss Heinrich Himmler; Nazi party boss Martin Bormann. Adolf Hitler was not mentioned. Military operations in the northern zone were handed to Field Marshal Ernst Busch, but he will be kept in line by a trusted Nazi, Helmuth Friedrichs, holding direct command...
...German pockets. These would include the north German zone and Baltic coastal pockets; the Denmark-Norway pocket; five French ports and the Channel Islands; the Latvian pocket; Bohemia; a group of islands in the eastern Mediterranean; northern Italy, which is in fact a forefield of the great Alpine bastion; and finally the bastion itself...
...south, the U.S. Seventh and the French First Armies had slower going, for they were in the outer defenses of the Nazis' Alpine bastion. But this week the Seventh plunged forward 15 miles to the Nazi "shrine city" of Nürnberg...
...redoubt in real earnest. The area around Berchtesgaden, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Starnberg and Miesbach was guarded by a double cordon of Himmler's blackshirts, and no one could pass without proper credentials. If, as seemed likely, the Russians and the western Allies should soon meet south of Berlin, the bastion would be cut off from northern Germany. Then the Allies would see how seriously the Nazis intended to fight in it, and how well they were able...
...were insoluble. A decree by Hitler last week divorced Nazi Party duties from local government affairs. The German radio said that it was done to free busy Nazi officials from the burden of local administration. More probably, it was to free them for flight to their last-ditch Bavarian bastion...