On Memorial Day, a Plea to Ignore Demagogues (Guest Column)

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By Gandulf Henning Today is Memorial Day saluting veterans and a few weeks ago we observed the 75th anniversary of the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany.

The Americans and the British call it Victory in Europe Day, the Germans call it Tag der Befreiung, Liberation Day, because that’s what it was for them, although it took Germans many years, if not decades, to understand it as such, and to even begin to come to terms psychologically with what their nation had done to the world.

In all 6 million Jews were murdered, more than 50 million civilians died in WWII, more than 2 million soldiers were slaughtered, and more than 5 million prisoners of war died.