Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bastion. On the eastern front, the Nazis were losing Vienna in a bloody, costly, hopeless battle. It was too late for considerations of prestige. The alarming thing was that, at Vienna, the Russians had reached the eastern approaches of the Alpine bastion...
...Nazi plan was also clear-to string resistance out until the last spring snapped. By now all of Germany, from Hamburg to Vienna, from the Oder to the Ysselmeer, was one gigantic pocket...
...Payroll. All this, and more, was stored in chambers 2,100 feet deep. The Americans went down, opened a few bundles of currency, looked into wooden cases that covered paintings and statues. On many cases they noted significant stencilings: Paris, Brussels, Vienna. But Curator Rave insisted that these were not stolen treasures-this store of art belonged to the Reich, had been removed from Berlin "because the Russians were pushing too close...
...Seventh Army hit a weak spot and found a German sore spot. His loth Armored Division carved a startling 30-mile breakthrough to within 45 miles of the upper waters of the Danube. This was a delicate area for the Nazis-the Napoleonic route of invasion toward Vienna. Over it Patch's men might strike through to split Germany...
Tolbukhin's tanks surged across the plains of 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...