V E Day - Victory in Europe - Shame on Germany

To the relief of whole Europe Germany unconditionally surrendered on 8 may 1945.

This is something that future generations should feel to their bones, and not simply dismiss as history. Only One Hundred years before the First World War had Europe rid itself of its previous would-be Dictator, Napoleon (incidentally for anyone who has ever visited a French Museum he is still, curiously, lauded as a national hero, rather than the demonic democratic anti-Christ the rest of sees him as). History is easy to dismiss without personal involvement. As a child of the 60s, WWII was just 15 years behind us, but we felt the austerity, we had nothing, and were happy with nothing.

As children, we knew no better, austerity was commonplace, everyone had it, and we knew why! As the greatest alliance we had just defeated humanity’s greatest enemy - Germany! We were still recovering from WWII. In school we learned a lot about WWI, from teachers who had experienced that pain, which had only ended roughly four decades earlier. What I am saying is that without personal involvement, WWI was as ancient history to us as the pyramids. In retrospect I feel sorry for those soles sacrificed during the WWI conflict because we do not in this modern world pay them the due respect for their supreme effort bringing us to the freedom we enjoy today. It may seem ridiculous to say, but without these soldier’s laying down their lives, WWII would not have been possible. Think about that! We owe our freedom to the conclusion of WWII, but in turn to WWI.

So, our personal involvement with WWII drifts away from us, as does the tax declaration of two years previous. We should regret that, because our grandparents or parents gave their lives for our right to defend that indifference.

Where does that leave us today in regard to WWII?. Perhaps we should think about how the Americans celebrated VE Day, which was widely perceived as not they’re was war.

But never the less, they were there with us to the end! And we could not have done it without them.

Seventy year after VE day, there are mass celebrations on the anniversary, in London, in Paris, in Poland, in Ukraine, huge in Washington and huge in Moscow.

There was rumoured to be something happening in Berlin, but no-one could find out what was happening when or where.

The man who made it all possible, for without his Will and determination, there would not have been a resistance to Germany to fight WWII, Winston Churchill, was complacent about the victory.

To Germanys greatest modern day shame, it commemorations of VE Day, were held in closed ceremony in Germanys Reichstag Parliament building with orchestral classical music.

Huge, Huge! Shame on Germany that the end of suffering for millions at the hands of Germans was not commemorated in public and on nationwide television, for the World to see that Germany is eternally sorry for its crimes against humanity.

Almost every journalistic reference these days panders to political correctness as Nazi Germany. Undoubtedly Hitler’s Germany was of that political bias, but to placate the events of that period to a Nazi minority is to negate the mass involvement. The words Nazi and German were synonymous. At that time Germany was Nazi, it was not against Nazis that we fought, but against Germans!