Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians' four-month campaign to knock the Balkan satellites out of the war appeared to be near another climax: capture of Budapest and a break into the Slovak approaches to Vienna...
...Germans had written off Budapest. Last week the queen city of the Danube was just something to be destroyed so that Vienna, 115 miles upriver, might be saved. The crisis of Budapest had become the crisis of the southeastern approaches to Germany itself...
Colonel General Heinz Guderian had willed Budapest's doom for a reason that was obvious: he wanted to gain time for the defense of Austria. Out of Vienna moved a horde of old and young to dig trenches along the old Austro-Czechoslovak border. The Germans were reportedly moving what they could of Vienna's big war plants...
...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, occupied most of Hungary...
...Russian assault pivoted on Budapest had become a triple threat: 1) the reinforced city garrisons were in danger of complete encirclement, with retreat to Vienna's defense cut off; 2) Malinovsky's center and right wing were arching in a 50-mile-wide pincers movement for another possible entrapment; 3) Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin's big force southwest of Budapest was in position to swing north in a separate drive on Vienna...