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In Japan the surrender came and the killing stopped , but I Heard that Germans were still murdering plenty of people in Germany for one year after the end of the war , as occupier nations took over Germany
Marshal Vazilyev's* armies were killing butt on the Kwantung Army until August 22, after joining the fight between the bombings.
*Never spell his name right in Roman characters.
Not many casualties on a WWII scale in the Manchurian campaign.
My subtle point was that for Europeans the war ended on 8 May. After that it was only a mop-up and territority-claiming in our mind, regardless that for Americans some of the most vicious fighting happened after VE-day.
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Actually the Chinese continued to fight among themselves, and I believe the French and Vietnamese were fighting. Then Koreans, Chinese and Americans started fighting. A few years after that Americans were fighting in Vietnam.
It's true. The Chinese civil war created massive amounts of casualties, and the first Indochina war for independence might've taken 500k casualties. And in 1950 the Korean War started.
The period since the end of WW2, 1945 as a whole was probably the most peaceful period humanity has ever seen. With all the crap that's been going on. Plus we've seen unprecedented technological and life-span progress. Almost all of the world in 1945 had a life expectancy below 50 years and now we are way beyond this almost everywhere. Plus individual rights are way expanded and more protected almost everywhere.
And most of this progress evolved because of the growth of economic, as well as personal liberty; Western Europe flowered, but the slave states behind the Iron Curtain did not.
But the Social Justice and Political Correctness crowd are promoting an agenda not far removed from Fascism.
In Japan the surrender came and the killing stopped , but I Heard that Germans were still murdering plenty of people in Germany for one year after the end of the war , as occupier nations took over Germany
The aftermath of WW2 in Europe was quite bloody. Between 12 and 14 million German civilians, the overwhelming majority of them women, children and the elderly were kicked out of Eastern Europe as the frontiers of Poland were shifted westwards. In addition, the Sudeten Germans were kicked out of Czechoslovakia at the end of the war. Estimated deaths were around 500,000
Then there were the anti-communist Russians who were handed over to the Red Army. Many were summarily executed and other sent to labor camps where mortality was high.
And there were the approximately three million German POWs in Russia the last of whom was released in 1956. It is estimated that anywhere between 400,000 and one million of them died in captivity.
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We weren't completely certain the fighting would stop even then. And, as noted, so Japanese soldiers held out until the 1970s. The formal signing was as important to Japan as it was to the Allies.
I remember the occasional Japanese soldier being found on islands, totally unaware that the war had ended.
The aftermath of WW2 in Europe was quite bloody. Between 12 and 14 million German civilians, the overwhelming majority of them women, children and the elderly were kicked out of Eastern Europe as the frontiers of Poland were shifted westwards. In addition, the Sudeten Germans were kicked out of Czechoslovakia at the end of the war. Estimated deaths were around 500,000
Neither did anti-semitism die with the end of the war. There were Pogroms in Poland between 1944-1946.
Great point. Let's see some college BDS movements on the issues of the atrocities against the Poles and Germans. Why stop with Israel?
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