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South of Germany three Russian armies were now in action. One army, stalled at Budapest, had pivoted northward, by week's end had captured Miskolc, fortified and held by the Germans as a bastion of northern Hungary. Farther east a second had sprung to life, attacked in the mountains of Slovakia. Moscow did not announce it until last week, but in mid-November a third army had joined in, crossing the Danube 130 miles below Budapest...
...prince, a young lieutenant and a guide, he went to the Tatra Mountains in the Carpathian range. They posed as a skiing party, never speaking to passersby, sleeping in mountain caves until they reached the Hungarian border. Karski met an underground agent in a border town, was motored to Budapest, hidden in a hospital, given papers to prove he had been in Budapest since the beginning of the war. He took the Simplon-Orient Express to France, six weeks of freedom, and talks with General Sikorski...
...long Russian line across Hungary swung inexorably north. Budapest held with German-made firmness; Red Army units which advanced to its outskirts three weeks before had gone no farther. But eastward Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's divisions snapped railroads and highways one by one, captured town after town, reached to within 23 miles of the Slovakian border. Budapest was being flanked...
Whether the Russians were holding off direct attack to save the city or save their troops, no one could tell. But the Germans said Budapest would never be declared an open city, announced they would "defend it street by street without regard to consequences to the city or its population." The Hungarian puppet Government echoed them uneasily, prodded its soldiers with promises. Said the War Minister: troops will receive higher pay, postwar jobs, and "I have every hope that every fighting man will be provided with adequate warm clothing...
...five; a 16-bug-power motor (operated by June bugs glued to the arms of a tiny windmill) at nine; a "vacuum motor" at twelve; his famed alternating current generator at 25. This came to him while he was reciting Goethe's Faust one day in a Budapest park; he promptly diagrammed it in a dirt path with a twig...