Word: bastioned
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...clean-cut military surrender" in the west (see U.S. AT WAR). On some sectors last week, in fact, the Germans were still full of fight. They fought hard for the north, to keep the Allies away from the ports; for the south, to keep them away from the Alpine bastion; and for the cut-off Ruhr, which, though its industries were useless, had become a pocket of strategic value (see below...
...Bastion. On the eastern front, the Nazis were losing Vienna in a bloody, costly, hopeless battle. It was too late for considerations of prestige. The alarming thing was that, at Vienna, the Russians had reached the eastern approaches of the Alpine bastion...
...Leipzig and Munich was a beaten, confused, retreating mass that could turn to fight only in knots of resistance. The last hope of the Nazi command seemed to be only this : abandon the north-south defense of Germany as speedily as possible and pivot to hold the southern bastion of the Bavarian Alps for a final, suicidal defense...
...even that hope was in danger. If the western Allies and the Russians, beating up from the Austrian frontier, could meet quickly, the bastion would be useless. Allied tank columns tore southeast toward Nürnberg at week...
...prongs cut up from Hungary and down from Silesia, ripping toward the Bohemian bastion. In three months Colonel General Johannes Friessner had sacrificed four of his eleven armored divisions to drive the Russians back from the southern entrances to this natural fortress...