Germany was liberated too
It is not often I agree with Gerhard Schroeder:
"It [the allied victory in World War II] was a victory over the barbarians of the SS who in the days when they marched to the French coast, pitilessly murdered almost the entire population of the town of Oradour.
"It was a victory over the criminal regime which murdered six million Jews - and hundreds of thousands of people in the resistance, members of minorities and those designated as 'not worthy of life'. It was the victory over a regime which turned murder into an industrial process.
"And it was a victory for the brave men and women who, although they failed, tried to put an end to Hitler in July 1944."
When I as working in Italy a few years ago they had a day off for "Liberation". "Liberated from the Germans?" I asked. No. "Liberated from Mussolini". I wonder if the Germans have a similar day.
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