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Today 60 years ago ...

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 4:16 pm
by :FI:Genosse
... WWII ended ... at least here in Europe. :)

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Germany´s man in charge at this point of time Großadmiral Karl Dönitz ordered the high-ranking Officers Jodl (in Allied HQ in Reims), Keitel, Friedeberg and Stumpff (in Soviet HQ in Berlin-Karlshorst) to sign the capitulation documents. All hostile activities ended and the way was free to rebuild the maltreated and destroyed continent ...

A salute to all victims, to those you fought to free Europe from Nazism, to those who died a senseless death ...

^:|

Salute!

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 6:59 pm
by :FI:Fenian
^:|

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 9:02 pm
by Stovies_
^:|

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 9:18 pm
by :FI:Murph
Please God, never again.

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 12:57 am
by Deathsledge
^:|

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 2:22 am
by Kitty
^:)

and don't forget to :beer:

Cheers, there goes another Murphy.

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 2:53 am
by :FI:ZekeMan
^:) :beer:

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 6:30 pm
by :FI:Dex
^:| :beer: ^:)

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 7:46 pm
by L.F
^:|

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 9:04 pm
by Skipper
^:|

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 11:18 pm
by arne_and
^:| How many died in ww2 really? Was it 60 millions? I know that 20 millions russians got killed..

And we got to remember that in the "after war time" many have gotten killed in wars too, for example the war in rowanda, where somewhere around 100 millions got killed in a matter of months.. Im not trying to make ww2 look less grave than it was but, Salute to those too ^:|

Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 12:38 am
by :FI:Falcon
Hard-line Hutu militia carried out the genocide in 1994 of at least 500,000 minority Tutsis.

Nearly a million refugees fled to the former Zaire.

That million returned to Rwanda in '96.


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Agreed!

Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 3:30 am
by :FI:Heloego
^:)

Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 8:28 am
by Kcid
YEah ^:|

Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 9:35 am
by arne_and
oh, ok, my numbers got a bit out of hand, sorry. I heard it from a friend that studied social studies.. guess she didnt study hard enough