Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...petty official. Hitler wanted to become an artist. The long struggle between them was ended only by the death of his father. Then his mother sent him to art school. Two years later she died. Young Hitler packed his few clothes in a suitcase and struck out for Vienna...
...momentous trip for mankind. For in gay, cosmopolitan, highly civilized Vienna the young German nationalist from the Alps suffered for the first time three new urban experiences that profoundly influenced his future: the slum proletariat, Social Democratic trade unions, Jews...
...battles in north and central Germany would be struggles of annihilation. Ruined Berlin mattered little now as a military prize. The Russians this week already had a prize probably more significant to final victory: Vienna. There the siege which might have destroyed much of the city had been quickly turned into a Nazi rout. The street battles of seven days & nights were the last phases of a strategic victory that had been won in four weeks of battles along the roads from Budapest. In those battles the Germans had desperately spent armor and manpower. The Red Army had chopped apart...
...Vienna, main rail hub of southeastern Europe, was the gateway between the food bins and arsenals of Czechoslovakia and the 35 divisions in Italy and Yugoslavia. Even before Moscow's 324-gun salute boomed the Vienna victory, the Russians were off toward more decisive prizes. This week Red columns stood only 30 miles from Brünn, one of the shrinking Reich's last armaments centers. Other columns had turned westward along the Danube and toward Linz. There the Russians would be in position to seal off the eastern side of the Nazis' Alpine redoubt...
...hired a second band to fill the other. He saw at once that there was money to be made in musical bookings. The following summer he was collecting agent's fees from bands in four Midwest states. With the proceeds, he set off for the University of Vienna to study ophthalmology...