![]() ![]() In every camp we found appalling scenes and the bodies of thousands who either died of starvation or were murdered. The Liberation is also an enduring lesson in collaboration and cooperation in wartime by a winning military and political coalition, which overcame internal quarrels and differences in a shared effort.Īs the war neared its end in Europe Allies came across numerous Nazi concentration camps filled with sick and starving prisoners. For all that, the Liberation of western Europe was also a triumph of morality and justice over the most evil, ruthless, and criminal regimes of the 20 th century. It is a conflict often represented as an archetypal struggle between good and evil, but it was also a war of clashing national and imperial interests, material production, reduced inhibitions to destruction on all sides, and terrible means ranging from deliberate starvation of civilian populations via sea blockades, to aerial destruction of hundreds of cities, to deliberate genocides, that by the end, saw 75 million people killed. World War II was the last great global war and has long functioned as the conflict by which all other wars are judged. ![]() ![]() WWII in Europe lasted six long years, from 1939 to 1945, with American participation from December 1941 to May 1945. The final battles of the European Theater of World War II as well as the German surrender to the Allies took place in late April and early May 1945. ![]()
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