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Wilhelm Frick, a roistering Munich policeman who had risen to become "protector" of Bohemia and Moravia, was a prisoner. It was Frick who, as premier of Thuringia, had conferred German citizenship on Austrian-born Adolf Hitler...
...Constantin von Neurath, first Nazi Foreign Minister, ex-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. He was also taken by French forces...
...southeastern front, Marshal Malinovsky was gathering momentum for a push into Bohemia, and south of Bohemia Marshal Tolbukhin was thrusting along the Danube toward Linz. If Tolbukhin can meet the U.S. Third and Seventh Armies in the Danube valley, perhaps between Linz and Regensburg, then Bohemia (and the war industries of Prague and Pilsen) will be cut off from the Nazis' Alpine bastion...
...will eliminate the eastern and western fronts, and usher in the final phase of the battle of Germany: the destruction of the 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...
...weeks the Germans had been throwing heavy counterattacks, in one of which they lost 300 tanks in three days, against Soviet Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin's forces between Lake Balaton and the Danube, in Hungary. From Lake Balaton to the Moravian Gate (northeastern entrance to mountain-girt Bohemia) they had 30 German and 20 Hungarian divisions. Fighting Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia they had ten more. The only sane military explanation for this spreading-out of force was a desperate Nazi desire to keep the Allies away from those approaches to the bastion...