Word: budapests
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...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...
Beleaguered Budapest was already nearly two-thirds surrounded by the plodding, artillery-heavy Red Army. But into the city at that late hour the Germans poured several SS divisions, reportedly some others from the Italian front. Their orders: fight in every room of every house-Budapest must disappear from the face of the earth before Russian troops may have it. Ruling the ancient city's defenders was one of the grimmest, most corrupt of Nazis: Palestine-born, Hebrew-speaking SS Obergruppenführer Karl Eichmann, who had made an enormous racket out of Hungary's anti-Semitic campaign...
...retreat without preparation, cluttered the roads, lost their vehicles in the backwoods mud, fell prey to Russian encirclements. Tolbukhin's forces reached the south shores of the great inland lake, quickly cleared it of the last knots of German defense, then bulged around the eastern end toward Budapest...
...east side of the Danube, where Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky had been wheeling on the pivot of Budapest, a new battle was announced with a flourish of Moscow's victory guns. This-the Battle of the Danube Bend-began with a large force bypassing Budapest and swinging around the knee of the great river north of Hungary's capital. Overrunning deeply staggered German defense lines built along canals and streams, the Russians captured Vac, 15 miles above Budapest, flung their right wing as far north as the Slovakian border...
...battles developed, Budapest was the prime objective. Sooner or later it would fall; already the Germans reported that they had moved their puppet Hungarian government back to the Austrian border. Then the Russians would sight for bigger targets: Bratislava and Vienna...