Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only in Hungary was the Red Army active, but there it was developing a program of action that sent shivers up Ger man spines from Vienna to Berlin. Although Budapest was still German, the Russian campaign had widened...
Russian newspapers were already dismissing Budapest as just another milestone on the march to Vienna and Berlin, but it might still be hard to pass. The Germans, backed by the Hungarians of the Fascist Arrow Cross, were digging in for street fighting. Presumably they would fall back on Buda, force the Russians into a difficult (but not impossible) river crossing under the heights crowned by Fortress Hill and the Royal Palace. The Russians could count on their own power, on help from some Hungarians who saw that the affair was over, and now preferred to save their city...
...others: the late Drs. Carl Abraham and Max Eitingon of Berlin, Sandor Ferenczi of Budapest, Otto Rank of Vienna, Ernest Jones of London (still living). *Fran Profesor, 80, is still living in London...
...fate of Budapest and of Vienna, 135 miles beyond it, depended upon how much the Germans could spare to defend them. With Germany's east and west fronts in peril, how much was left for the south? Would Hungary's 35 divisions follow Horthy's line? Or would they follow the new government of Ferenc Szalasi, leader of the Fascist Arrow Cross...
...American officer, explaining the difference between the U.S. Army's policy toward civilians in Belgium and Germany, had said: "In Belgium we ask them; in Germany we tell them." Now Vienna-born Captain Kurt Walitschek, of the U.S. Army, presiding at the summary military court trial of the four women, was prepared to demonstrate that policy...