Word: bucharest
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...week the Germans in Rumania lost the rich oil fields of Ploesti; Constanta, Rumania's chief port on the Black Sea; Bucharest, the "little Paris" of the Balkans. Worst of all, by choosing to fight for the Wallachian plain, Adolf Hitler had lost the better part of 30 divisions -which might otherwise have pulled back to defend Germany proper. Moreover the Russians, now heading for a junction with Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia, threatened to cut off all the remaining Wehrmacht divisions-estimated at 15 to 20-in the southern Balkan peninsula...
...Bucharest. The Germans vented their fury at their lost Rumanian satellite by a savage air bombing of the capital. The famed Athenée Palace hotel and the university library were wrecked, the national theater burned to the ground. Seven hospitals were...
...tanks and cavalry entered Bucharest without a fight, and Moscow was careful not to call it a "capture," since Rumania was now an ally. But in Moscow the event was saluted with 24 salvos from the full battery of 324 guns, and the Moscow radio told how the people of Bucharest "enthusiastically hailed" the newcomers and "threw flowers at our troops...
Within a week the Russians had ad vanced 125 miles, overrun 18.500 square miles, recovered all of Bessarabia, killed or captured 300,000 enemy troops. They were less than 60 miles from the Ploesti wells. 80 miles from Bucharest. In addition, their molnia...
Promptly the new Rumanian Government declared war on Germany. The Berlin radio snarled: "Perfidy." The Wehrmacht angrily attacked Bucharest; at week's end, said Nazi sources, the capital was ringed and cut off from the rest of the country...