Word: bratislava
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...western Hungary, captured the rail center of Szombathely, then outflanked the Nazi positions southeast of the shallow lake called the Sea of Vienna to plunge into the Austrian province of Burgenland. On both sides of the Danube and northward in Slovakia, Malinovsky's troops fought toward the Bratislava Gap and Vienna...
...Budapest (but many of its famed landmarks were in the center of raging fires). But stubby, square-faced Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky did appear to be in a hurry to get over the fringe of mountains north of the city and on to the plain that led to both Bratislava (Slovakia's capital) and Vienna. Sweeping around Budapest, he made swift progress, cut over the Slovak border into Ipolysag (Sahy), only some 80 miles from Bratislava. To the northeast, more of Malinovsky's men advanced in hard fighting through the last gaps of the Bükk Mountains...
...battles developed, Budapest was the prime objective. Sooner or later it would fall; already the Germans reported that they had moved their puppet Hungarian government back to the Austrian border. Then the Russians would sight for bigger targets: Bratislava and Vienna...
Slovakia, a communications keystone for the Germans in Poland, Hungary and Austria, had been governed from strategic Bratislava by puppet Dr. Josef Tiso. When the Balkans began to crack, the Germans prepared to move into Slovakia in force, occupy road and railway lines needed for their troops. At the end of August the Slovaks rose, hauled out arms from their hiding places, seized control of central Slovakia and the industrial town of Banska Bystrica (80 miles north of Budapest...
...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...