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Word: linz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Bastion. Ahead (see map) was the natural corridor be tween the Austrian Alps and the Carpathians to industrial Bratislava on the east bank of the Danube. From Bratislava the Red Army might divide into two forces. One could fight up the Danubian gateway to Germany through Vienna to Linz, Munich and Nürnberg. The other could follow the Moravian gateway to northern Czechoslovakia-the Bohemian bastion.* Other Russian forces now before Cracow could move in to join the Bohemian drive through the Oder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY (SOUTH): New Vistas | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...crates had been hauled from Monte Cassino, their first hiding place, by trucks of the Hermann Goering Division. Best guess was that the Titians had disappeared into flesh-loving Hermann's gallery of high-class nudes, the Breughel into Linz's Hitler Museum, which specializes in the Flemish masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nudes for Hermann | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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