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Secrets of the Second World War (4): Myth "Alpine fortress" (2012x29)

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Nothing caused the Allied strategists more sleepless nights in the last months of the war than the “Alpine fortress”. As early as the autumn of 1944, US chief Allen Dulles had been collecting disturbing reports in Bern and wired them to Washington: The Germans were in the process of transforming the Alpine region from Lake Como to Wiener Neustadt into an almost impregnable "Reduit" with underground factories and command centers , Missiles and jets, hundreds of thousands of battle-hardened soldiers and supplies for years.