Word: budapests
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...forged into the familiar pattern of Red Army bridgeheads established in force far from the ultimate objective. Thus the Sandomierz grip on the upper Vistula had been the springboard for the present offensive. Thus the crossing of the Danube far south in Yugoslavia had brought the toppling of Budapest. So the Oder-the last wide ditch before Berlin-might be enveloped in preparation for Zhukov's frontal assault...
...week long a cloud-part frost, part smoke, part dust-hung over the agony of Budapest. From the heights of Buda, Red Army soldiers occasionally saw the spires of a cathedral swim out of the cloud's dark folds, stand in the clear for a few moments, disappear again. For miles around, the snow was black with soot from the cloud. In the heart of the town a grim struggle raged through the days & nights, block by block, brick by brick. As the battle neared its 15th day, the Russians had won more than...
...cellars not used as forts, Budapest's civilians huddled, their normal numbers of 1,000,000 swollen to perhaps 2,000,000 by refugees who had fled the war-ravaged countryside expecting to find safety in the city. They were dying by hundreds...
...Budapest the Germans fought to the bitter end long after it had become tactically unimportant. How much the city had suffered was not told, but it could not have escaped vast damage. The first of the satellite capitals to feel war's destruction, it stood this week as a monument to the Germans' readiness to sacrifice somebody else's possessions, and to the Russians' complexity of attack...
...Hungary, Russia last week chalked up another political victory. While Budapest was in flames (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), the Moscow radio announced a new Hungarian National Provisional Government at Debrecen, 120 miles to the east. It promptly promised an early armistice and administration of the conquered three-fourths of Hungary, on the pattern of Rumania and Bulgaria...