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vox-anglosphere · 11 months
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V-E Day children of London, snapped by an American photographer
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fidjiefidjie · 11 months
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Bonjour ☕, bonne journée de célébration du 8 Mai 1945 🇨🇵
Place de l'Opéra🗼Paris 8 Mai 1945
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culturefrancaise · 11 months
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Paris, probablement sur les Champs-Elysées, robes aux couleurs des vainqueurs : Grande-Bretagne, France, États-Unis, URSS (photo colorisée).
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aiiaiiiyo · 1 year
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randomberlinchick · 11 months
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Watch "African American Units of WWII" on YouTube
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As today is May 8, I'm paying tribute to black soldiers who fought and died during World War II to preserve freedoms in Europe that they didn't have at home.
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gauloise-sans-filtre · 11 months
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Image du jour, instantanément gravée pour l'éternité.
Un petit, tout minuscule président sans peuple. Pas un chat, pas un seul français. Effectivement, cela fera l'objet d'études, de discussions sans fin, et de palabres d'Historiens.
De plus en plus, nous nous rapprochons de 1984 de Georges Orwell.
J'ai mal au cœur.
Nous y sommes déjà depuis un moment dans le monde d'Orwell. Surtout avec le wokism des américains imposé à tout l'Occident.
Puisque le peuple est contre l'oligarchie et la République des francs-maçons, de l'élite la plus anti-France de l'Histoire de France, il faut dissoudre le peuple...Encore une fois, que ceux qui votent pour ces minables, aillent se faire soigner et s'abstiennent à jamais de se rendre dans les urnes.
Je ne sais pas si je suis encore humaine, mais à force de subir les humiliations, les hautes traitrises et cette collaboration avec tout ennemi de France, je ne ressens plus la douleur, juste la honte. Heureusement que les gauchiste ont fait barrage et ont empêché les pires heures de notre Histoire de se reproduite hein, oufff, on a eu chaud dis donc ! Grâce aux bobos gauchos, nous sommes sauvés avec la Macronie socialo-progressiste au pouvoir !
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tilos-tagebuch · 10 months
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We will not forget anything
This video gives you a deep look into the Russian soul! Take the 3 minutes! They are - definitely - not wasted!
"They are still the same young people to their souls, but they have given their youth for future generations - for us. Nevertheless, there are warm memories, even of such a terrible and difficult time: memories of the people with whom this path had been taken shoulder to shoulder. We will not forget anything."
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le-journal-catalan · 11 months
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Commémoration 2023 du 8 mai 1945 à Canet, un millésime exceptionnel
Comme les années précédentes, l’association MVCG Languedoc Roussillon (Fédé­ra­tion Fran­çaise des groupes de conser­va­tion de véhi­cules militaires) nous a permis de découvrir de magnifiques pièces militaires parfaitement entretenues dans le cadre somptueux du théâtre de la mer à Canet en Roussillon. Guy Toureilles, Président MVCG Languedoc Roussillon, et l’ensemble des bénévoles et passionnés…
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rabbitcruiser · 11 months
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Victory in Europe Day 
Victory in Europe Day is observed on May 8 to commemorate when the Allies of World War II formally accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces. Did you know that even after Germany — the architect of the war — surrendered, Japan continued to wage war against the Allied troops? World War II was the costliest war ever; over 75 million lives were lost, cities leveled, and the economy of Europe was devastated. The war began when Hitler’s Germany invaded Poland and ended nearly six years later when Japan surrendered. Victory in Europe Day is celebrated as a public holiday in several European countries and termed V.E. Day and V-E Day in the U.K. and the U.S., respectively.
HISTORY OF VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY
On April 30, 1945, the Allied forces surrounded Germany, tightening the noose around the German army. Realizing the hopelessness of his situation, Hitler killed his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun, and committed suicide in his Berlin bunker. Immediately taking the presidency, Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, Hitler’s successor, began negotiating for a term of surrender with the Allied forces. Chief among his goals was saving as many Germans as possible from being captured by the Soviets.
On May 4, in Luneburg Heath, British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of German forces in the Netherlands, northwest Germany, and Denmark. On May 7, another unconditional military surrender was signed at SHAEF H.Q. at Reims, between Supreme Allied Commander General Eisenhower and General Alfred Jodl of Germany. The following day, a slightly modified document — the definitive German Instrument of Surrender — was signed in Karlshorst, Berlin, by German Field Marshal William Keitel.
Following the announcement of the German surrender on radio on May 7, the news quickly spread across the western world, and jubilations erupted everywhere, especially in North America and the U.K. The B.B.C. interrupted their program to announce that Victory in Europe Day would be a national holiday. Over one million people trooped out to the streets of the U.K. to celebrate, while in London, people crowded Trafalgar Square, the Mall, and Buckingham Palace. The British Royal Family, joined by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, appeared on the palace’s balcony, waving to the cheering crowds.
In the United States, Victory in Europe Day happened to be the same day as President Harry Truman’s 61st birthday. However, he dedicated the victory to his late predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the U.S. flag remained at half-mast. Victory in Europe Day was also celebrated in Australia, Paris, and Canada — where a riot broke down and resulted in several deaths.
VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY TIMELINE
April 30,1945 The Suicide of Hitler
During the Battle of Berlin, the city becomes surrounded — so, Hitler kills his wife and commits suicide.
May 4, 1945 The First Act of Surrender
British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery accepts the unconditional surrender of German forces in the Netherlands, northwest Germany, and Denmark.
May 7, 1945 The Second Act of Surrender
Supreme Allied Commander General Eisenhower accepts the unconditional surrender of German forces from German General Alfred Jodl.
May 8, 1945The German Instrument of Surrender
The definitive German Instrument of Surrender is signed in Berlin by German Field Marshal William Keitel.
August 14, 1945 The End of the War
Japan agrees to surrender to the Allied forces and formally signs an agreement the following month.
VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY FAQS
Is Victory in Europe Day celebrated in Germany?
Victory in Europe Day is generally viewed in Germany as a day to commemorate those that died during the war. However, it’s also a day to renew their promises of preventing such events from happening again.
Who celebrates Victory in Europe Day?
Victory in Europe Day is mainly celebrated by North American and European countries, including Israel and the European Union — celebrated as Europe Day.
How do the French celebrate Victory in Europe Day?
Victory in Europe Day is celebrated with a lot of festivities and fanfare. Church services, parades, ceremonies, monument visitations, and air force flyovers are ways Victory in Europe Day is commemorated in France.
HOW TO OBSERVE VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY
Visit the World War II Memorial
Talk to a World War II veteran
Watch World War II movies or documentaries
The World War II Memorial was built in 2004 to honor those that fought and died during World War II. The memorial is located in Washington D.C. You can visit and take a tour around this place of honor to pay your respects to those that prevented the war from entering our borders.
You can observe Victory in Europe Day by chatting with a WWII veteran about the unfiltered events of the war. There are many of these veterans around, and they can be found at senior homes. Visiting them would allow you to learn a lot and provide you with an opportunity to appreciate them for their sacrifices.
Many films are produced almost every decade, dedicated to the major battles of World War II. You can spend Victory in Europe Day by watching classics like “Stalingrad,” “Dunkirk,” “Dirty Dozen,” “Come and See,” and “Saving Private Ryan.” You can also watch documentaries, such as “Battlefield,” “World At Watt,” and “Russia’s War: Blood Upon the Snow.”
5 IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT WORLD WAR II
It was between two groups of countries
The Holocaust happened
Some countries remained neutral
It was the bloodiest war
Millions died for not being perfect Germans
World War II was fought between Allied countries — Britain, France, Russia, China, and the U.S. — and Axis nations — Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Hitler’s Germany killed about six million Jewish people during the war.
Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland are examples of countries that never chose a side during the war.
About 75 million people died during the war, including 40 million civilians and 20 million military personnel.
Aside from Jews, Hitler ordered people with disabilities and Gypsies to be killed for not meeting his vision of the best and strongest race.
WHY VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY IS IMPORTANT
It marked the beginning of the end of WWII
It serves as a day of remembrance
It’s a day of reflection
When the German forces surrendered to the Allied troops on Victory in Europe Day, it ended the war on the European theatre, allowing the Allies to concentrate their efforts to win in the Eastern theatre three months later.
Victory in Europe Day is not only a day to celebrate Germany’s surrender but also a day to appreciate the military personnel that fought and died to make it happen.
Victory in Europe Day is a day for every country that participated in World War II, both the instigators and heroes, to reflect on the actions and events that led to the outbreak of war and ensure they don’t repeat themselves.
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vox-anglosphere · 2 years
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Manchester factory workers emerge in the euphoria of V E Day 1945
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fidjiefidjie · 11 months
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[…] trahi, fait prisonnier, affreusement torturé par un ennemi sans honneur, Jean Moulin mourrait pour la France, comme tant de bons soldats qui, sous le soleil ou dans l'ombre, sacrifièrent un long soir vide pour mieux « remplir leur matin ».
Charles de Gaulle
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culturefrancaise · 11 months
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Paris, Les magasins du Printemps décorés aux couleurs de la victoire (photo colorisée, noter le « V » de la victoire et la colombe portant le rameau d’olivier, symbole de la paix).
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sissa-arrows · 4 months
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Seeing articles and videos about “Israel” arming settlers reminds me of the stories my great grandpa told me about May 8th 1945. How France armed the settlers so they would help the colonial authorities kill Algerians. 45000 Algerians were killed in just a couple days and many more were jailed without proper trial.
The general who organized the massacre said to France “I got you 10 years of peace. But things need to change in Algeria, they failed only because the protests were not simultaneous. The calm is back only in surface, the gap between the two communities deepened. You cannot keep on using violence if you want to keep Algeria and your methods need to change.”
He was right (still a peace of shit cause dude organized the massacre of 45000 Algerians). France didn’t listen to him and 9 years and a half later on November 1st 1954 the Algerian war of liberation started with simultaneous attacks all over the North of Algeria. It started with 1000 men only and 8 years later Algeria was free of French colonial rule.
That’s why I’m convinced that Palestine will be free because Israel is repeating the same mistakes France did. My grandpa keeps telling me that he trust Palestinians to take back their land because that’s the natural order of things and because “Israel” reminds him so much of France. The methods, the lies, the propaganda. And just like Algerian women managed to show to the world what was truly happening and switched the public opinion, Palestinian journalists are showing to the world what’s happening. It cannot be ignored.
Pro Israel aholes reached the point where they have to disguise their protests as protest against antisemitism in order to gather any form of support from the public. Western medias already lost all credibility to the point where they are backtracking a bit. Politicians are backtracking slowly too. Because they are realizing that if they keep up the unconditional support they will fall with Israel (tbh I think they are all falling with Israel either way because whenever the Global South rise the West fall cause the West is unable to thrive without looting and oppressing the Global South.).
Palestine will be free in our lifetime Inch’Allah and we will all share pictures and videos of the liberation. Palestinians are going to rebuild their country and thrive. If Algeria kicked out colonizers after 132 years Palestine can do it because it’s a country of braves. Because nobody can stop a people who fight for liberation when the people are united.
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mapsontheweb · 2 months
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Allied proposals for partition of Germany after World War 2
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At the Potsdam Conference (17 July to 2 August 1945), after Germany's unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945, the Allies officially divided Germany into the four military occupation zones — France in the southwest, the United Kingdom in the northwest, the United States in the south, and the Soviet Union in the east, bounded on the east by the new Poland-Germany border on the Oder-Neisse line. At Potsdam, these four zones in total were denoted as 'Germany as a whole', and the four Allied Powers exercised the sovereign authority they now claimed over Germany in agreeing 'in principle' to the ceding of territory of the former German Reich east of 'Germany as a whole' to Poland and the Soviet Union. In addition, under the Allies' Berlin Declaration (1945), the territory of the extinguished German Reich was to be treated as the land area within its borders as of 31 December 1937. All land expansion from 1938 to 1945 was hence treated as automatically invalid, including Eupen-Malmedy, Alsace-Lorraine, Austria, Lower Styria, Upper Carniola, Southern Carinthia, Bohemia, Moravia, Czech Silesia, Danzig, Poland, and Memel. • 🗣️ What's your favorite proposal from these?
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sleepythug · 1 month
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What are some movies that every aspiring cinephile should watch?
battleship potemkin (sergei eisenstein, 1926)
city lights (charlie chaplin, 1931)
M (fritz lang, 1931)
freaks (tod browning, 1932)
brief encounter (david lean, 1945)
out of the past (jacques tourneur, 1947)
the third man (carol reed, 1949)
late spring (yasijuro ozu, 1949)
kiss me deadly (robert aldrich, 1955)
a man escaped (robert bresson, 1956)
touch of evil (orson welles, 1958)
la dolce vita (federico fellini, 1960)
peeping tom (michael powell, 1960)
man who shot liberty valance (john ford, 1962)
the exterminating angel (luis buñuel, 1962)
shock corridor (samuel fuller, 1963)
kwaidan (masaki kobayashi, 1964)
dragon inn (king hu, 1967)
playtime (jacques tati, 1967)
once upon a time in the west (sergio leone, 1968)
two-lane blacktop (monte hellman, 1971)
aguirre, wrath of god (werner herzog, 1972)
touki bouki (djibril diop mambety, 1973)
the conversation (francis ford coppola, 1974)
the passenger (michelangelo antonioni, 1975)
nashville (robert altman, 1975)
the killing of a chinese bookie (john cassavetes, 1976)
mikey and nicky (elaine may, 1976)
sorcerer (william friedkin, 1977)
days of heaven (terrence malick, 1978)
blow out (brian de palma, 1981)
8 diagram pole fighter (lau kar-leung, 1984)
mishima: a life in four chapters (paul schrader, 1985)
tampopo (jūzō itami, 1985)
blue velvet (david lynch, 1986)
something wild (jonathan demme, 1986)
landscape in the mist (theo angelopoulos, 1988)
sonatine (takeshi kitano, 1993)
salaam cinema (mohsen makhmalbaf, 1995)
fallen angels (wong kar-wai, 1995)
taste of cherry (abbas kiarostami, 1997)
cure (kiyoshi kurosawa, 1997)
the thin red line (terrence malick, 1999)
beau travail (claire denis, 1999)
yi yi (edward yang, 2000)
all about lily chou chou (shunji iwai, 2001)
memories of murder (bong joon-ho, 2003)
dogville (lars von trier, 2003)
tropical malady (apichatpong weerasethakul, 2004)
silent light (carlos reygadas, 2007)
sparrow (johnnie to, 2008)
holy motors (leos carax, 2012)
phoenix (christian petzold, 2014)
personal shopper (oliver assayas, 2016)
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