It is our wish to successfully give utterance to the true feelings from each era that we are able to represent on this website; for this reason, we posted the attached column by Max Lerner (1902 - 1992), in which he expresses his excitement as to how great it was to be alive in one of the Allied nations at the time of Hitler's demise.
"The steel and concrete of the most vaunted army in history, the German Army, has been shattered. The Nazi will that Hitler took two decades to build has collapsed...The two big fascist leaders in whose shadow our whole generation has lived - Mussolini and Hitler - are now lying dead amidst the ruins of their empires, one following the other in the space of a few days...The von Rundstedt whose drive through the Ardennes Forest made military history this [past] Winter is now a prisoner...New governments have been formed in Poland and Austria...We are part of these events - every one among us!"
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