[ex-snook]

I don't know about Berlin but I do know about Vienna. My recollection is that we were on the Austrian border and stayed there for about a week. We had gone from Munich/Dachau is a few days and there was no reason/opposition to wait. We could easily have gone to Vienna but as we found out later, Roosevelt had made arrangements with Stalin. Roosevelt had a lot of Commie lovers in his administration. The Russians were even supplied with our currency plates.

[muawiyah]

Austria was split up among the Allied forces. The Russians pulled out quite early because their zone of occupation was so small that it was very expensive for them to maintain it.

There's a huge, ugly Russian built bridge in Vienna. They also have the West Bahn Hof, a nice place built by the Western Allies about the same time as that bridge. The old central bahn hof was located in the Russian zone.

[Yasotay]

Thanks for that insight, I've read some accounts saying that also .... What did Napoleon say, "When you take Vienna, TAKE VIENNA!".