April 25th, 1945 70 years ago....
This date is celebrated every year as the official liberation of Italy from the German invasion and the last fascist troops, fighting alongside the Germans.
Since then, a national holiday in Italy. WWII officially ended here on May 2nd and three days later in the rest of Europe.
Documentaries shot during those days are more eloquent than simple words and worth hundreds of speeches.
Here are images of Milano on April 25th, 1945. The combatants wearing strange uniforms or in civilian clothes are partisans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKXyY6Ye7M4
This below was shot in Argenta first and Ferrara later, following the Allied troops advance. Two cities of my region, about a two hour car ride East of where I live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM3nNtcZh2k
This last one shows US 34th Division entering Reggio Emilia on April 25th. Shortly thereafter they arrived in Parma and Fidenza, my hometown. Highway 9, known here as Via Emilia, was built by the Romans and still runs on a West-East line through the entire region.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu9VwjEHq1w
Least we forget.
KH
Rembering the end of WW II
Hallo, to all,
At first let me tell you who I am...
I am a German born in 1956 in Berlin, just one year after my father has come back from Russian captivity. A year later my father joined the newly formed Luftwaffe in western Germany. He spoke very little about the time he was a Stuka pilot in Russia. But even ten years of captivity he always had good words ror the Russian people!
He transmitted me two things, the love for flying and for other peoples.
He and also my mother learned to see the other, to try to understand them and to respect them. Later after having served myself in the German navy, I choose to live in France. Brittany become my home and there i found the second half of my soul, my wife.
Now my home is still in Brittany but for work reasons I live most the time in Munich. Later even living in Brittany as a reservist i passed two missions in Ex-Yugoslavia as a volunteer. Perhaps a lot about me, but to show you my background.
Albix choice of words was perhaps to discus, but hmmm there are some thing in them I understand "close the book and take a new one and go forward." I see there a sense. Yes I see also all of those who celebrate the end of a painful period in Europe. They celebrate also the end of war and the hope for new way in history.
There is a also a proverb that says "you cannot have a future without having a past."
Please all do not forget that every medal has two sides!!!!
So let us close this topic and think about that there are two different ways to see that date. And let us try to see what are behind the words before feeling offended by the words themselves.
Und Ende mit Amen und habt Euch lieb!
I thought the thing was dead and buried...
Remember what Bearcat cited above... THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY MEDAL!!!
and "nicely" abrasive... is still abrasive... ("being helpful is better than being right????)
One should not turn to downgrading anyone's knowledge of a language... ability to read... etc. etc.
the retort will still be abrasive and aimed to HURT... No Isis referrals here please....
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones around...
Facts are facts and emotions are emotions... AND NEVER THE TWINE SHOULD MEET!!!
The old adage says "From discussion light is borne" well, NO LIGHT CAN BE
BORNE FROM SUCH A MIXTURE...
Oh, Common Sense... wherefore art thou.... Political discussions should be refrained from in this forum...
Most folk just "ain't got what it takes" to peaceably discuss politics...
Passive aggressive is still aggressive... (i.e: You sound like an idiot... Oh, I don't mean you are one... Sorry if I
sounded too harsh...) I am still calling you an idiot... and that is a fact... No way to soften what I said...
So... everyone... let us put our brain in gear before we "floor" the word pedal...
p.s.: Sorry if my words seem to judgmental... hahahahahaha! Have a nice day... (mmm???) (do I mean that?)
ma va a quel paese...