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That we not forget.

A link to the New York Times issue of May 8, 1945, file:///C:/Users/Vidya/Downloads/TimesMachine_%20May%208,%201945%20-%20NYTimes.com.html, headlined:

THE WAR IN EUROPE IS ENDED!
SURRENDER IS UNCONDITIONAL;
V-E WILL BE PROCLAIMED TODAY
 
Thank you for this. I agree that we had better never forget the suffering of the victims of the Third Reich, nor the sacrifice of the warriors who laid it low.

"War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid."
~Winston Churchill.
 
Paris Waiter's Toast to the Dead
Evokes Pictures of Whole War
March Into Belgium, Germans' Plunging
Victories, Fall of France and Long Road
Back Mingle as City Sings on Victory Day

By DREW MIDDLETON By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

PARIS, May 7—The old waiter that you liked best listened to the singing out on the Champs-Elysees and brought out a bottle. The filled his glass to the brim for himself and, gesturing toward the street, he said: "For those like Monsieur Lee, who will not return."

CONTINUE READING: Go to http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E04E1DE173EE532A0575BC0A9639C946493D6CF
 
Don't forget the sacrifice made by the USSR:

World War II casualties of the Soviet Union from all related causes were over 20,000,000, both civilians and military, although the statistics vary to a great extent largely because these figures are currently disputed. During the Soviet era information on casualties was considered top secret; later in the Glasnost period information on Soviet World War II casualties was published.

In 1993 a study by the Russian Academy of Sciences estimated total Soviet population losses due to the war at 26.6 million, including military dead of 8.7 million calculated by the Russian Ministry of Defense. These figures have been accepted by most historians outside of Russia. However the figure of 8.7 million military dead has been disputed by some historians in Russia because it is in conflict with the official database of the Central Defense Ministry Archive (CDMA) which lists the names of roughly 14 million dead and missing servicemen. Some independent researchers in Russia have put total losses in the war, both civilians and military, at over 40 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union
 
oggbashan said:
Don't forget the sacrifice made by the USSR:

World War II casualties of the Soviet Union from all related causes were over 20,000,000, both civilians and military, although the statistics vary to a great extent largely because these figures are currently disputed. During the Soviet era information on casualties was considered top secret; later in the Glasnost period information on Soviet World War II casualties was published.

In 1993 a study by the Russian Academy of Sciences estimated total Soviet population losses due to the war at 26.6 million, including military dead of 8.7 million calculated by the Russian Ministry of Defense. These figures have been accepted by most historians outside of Russia. However the figure of 8.7 million military dead has been disputed by some historians in Russia because it is in conflict with the official database of the Central Defense Ministry Archive (CDMA) which lists the names of roughly 14 million dead and missing servicemen. Some independent researchers in Russia have put total losses in the war, both civilians and military, at over 40 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union
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I can feel sympathy for the people of the USSR, who paid a terrible price but, I can't help thinking there might not even have been a European war if Stalin hadn't thrown in with Hitler. If I were to write a report and list in one column the casualties suffered by UK, USA, China, France, et al, and have a second column where the losses of the aggressors were listed, The Soviet Union would be included in that second column, along with Germany, Japan, Italy and the other Axis nations. (But not Finland)
 
 
boomer177 said:
That we not forget.

A link to the New York Times issue of May 8, 1945, file:///C:/Users/Vidya/Downloads/TimesMachine_%20May%208,%201945%20-%20NYTimes.com.html, headlined:

THE WAR IN EUROPE IS ENDED!
SURRENDER IS UNCONDITIONAL;
V-E WILL BE PROCLAIMED TODAY
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Amen!


 
 
I appreciate your help, oggbashan.
After four years here, i'm more than overdue to figure out how to do this.



Those are my VE-Day-related posts. Don't let that deter anyone else, however.

What should be next? 1945 was quite a year.
 
boomer177 said:
I appreciate your help, oggbashan.
After four years here, i'm more than overdue to figure out how to do this.



Those are my VE-Day-related posts. Don't let that deter anyone else, however.

What should be next? 1945 was quite a year.
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Well, there were the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the day Hiroshima was nuked, then Nagasaki, followed by VJ Day.
 
Boxlicker101 said:
Well, there were the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the day Hiroshima was nuked, then Nagasaki, followed by VJ Day.
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Actually, there is a fourth line in the front-page banner headline of the May 8, 1945 New York Times (See post #1):

THE WAR IN EUROPE IS ENDED!
SURRENDER IS UNCONDITIONAL;
V-E WILL BE PROCLAIMED TODAY;
OUR TROOPS ON OKINAWA GAIN


OP here just needs to get this pic-insertion thing straigfnt. Back soon, I trust.
 
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