Word: bratislava
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rnberg and the Bastion. Ahead (see map) was the natural corridor be tween the Austrian Alps and the Carpathians to industrial Bratislava on the east bank of the Danube. From Bratislava the Red Army might divide into two forces. One could fight up the Danubian gateway to Germany through Vienna to Linz, Munich and Nürnberg. The other could follow the Moravian gateway to northern Czechoslovakia-the Bohemian bastion.* Other Russian forces now before Cracow could move in to join the Bohemian drive through the Oder...
Czecho-Slovakia. At Bratislava, 40 miles east of Vienna, Hitler would see workmen feverishly camouflaging the mammoth dynamite factory so that its colors would blend with those of the freshly plowed Slovak and Hungarian fields. Authorities feared that the R.A.F. might try to repeat its Paris success in Czechoslovakia. In the newspapers Hitler would read about the desperate drive to increase armament production (in some factories it was down to 20% of capacity), but he would know that longer hours might mean more fuseless bombs, more faulty aircraft...