Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bavarian hills last week Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's U.S. Seventh Army hit a weak spot and found a German sore spot. His loth Armored Division carved a startling 30-mile breakthrough to within 45 miles of the upper waters of the Danube. This was a delicate area for the Nazis-the Napoleonic route of invasion toward Vienna. Over it Patch's men might strike through to split Germany...
...Germans themselves fought desperately enough. Vienna was the gateway to the Austrian and Bavarian Alps. It would have to hold if the Nazi hope of retreat to an Alpine redoubt was to be something more than the last act of a suicide. The Germans had labored mightily to build Vienna's defenses. In the orchard country to the south, cherry and apricot trees spread their blossoms over zigzagged trench works. On the heights at the north of the city the Germans had massed their guns to fire over the parks and palaces into the industrial suburbs...
...defeat 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...
...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...
...Wehrmacht could not afford to lose. Now Patton posed an even more serious threat to the weakening foe. He was in position to strike into the Main River valley, to try to split northern and southern Germany, thus perhaps prevent the expected Nazi move to hole up in the Bavarian and Austrian Alps...