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More than half a century ago, British army forces, along with Russian, American and French troops, occupied Austria during the closing stages of the Second World War. The Russians were the first to enter, occupying Vienna from the east on 13 April 1945. The Western Allies did not arrive until several weeks later, as conflict had dragged on in north-east Italy. However, after the surrender of the German South-Western Armies to the Allied forces in Italy on 2 May, British Eighth Army forces were finally able to cross the Austrian border into Carinthia (followed by a column of regular Yugoslav troops) several days later. The Allied occupation of Austria was completed by the US Fifth Army, which came up from Italy to meet the US Seventh Army, moving south from Bavaria, at the Brenner Pass. The French Army entered Austria from the direction of Lake Constance at the same time. The immediate task of the Eighth Army was to establish a military administration in the proposed British zone of the southern Austrian provinces of Carinthia and Styria, and in the British sector of Vienna. But it found Yugoslav troops -who had also entered Austria from the direction of Ljubljana -occupying many vi

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Author

Alice Hills (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333803936

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Language Learning