It is the 8th day of May 2018.
73 years ago, on this day, World War 2 officially came to an end by the signing of some documents.
With this affixing of names on a piece of paper, Germans and Austrians were allowed to forget over 72 Million victims.
We were allowed to speak of an Occupation of our land by the Allied Forces and it took, it is almost unbelievable, fully 40 years before the then German Federal President, Richard von Weizsäcker, in 1985 for the very first time spoke of "the day of Liberation from the inhuman yoke of the brutal dictatorship of the National Socialist Party."
Can you imagine this? For fully 40 years no leading Government official spoke of a "Liberation."
It seems they all were quite happy to live under a regime which murdered in excess of 17 Million people in various ways, not including in military combat.
What, you do not believe this number? Let me repeat here a previously listed summary:
People murdered by the Nazis:
Gypsies: 220,000
Jehovah's Witnesses 2,000
Institutionalized disabled 250,000
Serbian Civilians 312,000
Polish Civilians ( non Jewish) 1,800,000
Soviet Prisoners of War 3,000,000
Soviet Civilians, (non Jewish) 5,700,000
Jews 5,900,000
Total 17,184,000
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By all means, let us celebrate this 8th day of May, as the day on which Europe, all of Europe, was officially liberated from the yoke of Nazi Germany.
Bertstravels.
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