FIVE DAYS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II (Nicholas Best World War II History)

by Nicholas Best

Soviet

Funny how they didn't want what they did to others to happen to them

war.

Very intereting time.

more.

People are fucking crazy.

prisoner.

That sucks

Prisoners had continued to die at the rate of several hundred a day for weeks after the British arrived.

Damn

Irma Grese had apparently derived sexual satisfaction from the beatings, arbitrary shootings and random selections for the gas chamber that she had administered at Auschwitz.

Wtaf

In San Francisco, about as far removed from the war in Europe as it was from that in the Pacific, delegates from forty-six countries were meeting to draw up a charter for the United Nations, the new world council that was to replace the old League of Nations once the war was over. The new council was the brainchild of Roosevelt and Churchill,

And so it begins...

who had dreamed it up soon after Pearl Harbor. One of Harry Truman’s first actions as President had been to confirm that the conference would go ahead as planned, even though the chief architect was no longer there to cheer it on.

.... Wow....