1945—The Year of the Great Turning Point

Author: [German] Theo S?mel
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: 1945 was the year that determined the direction of the world. World War II ended, Germany and Japan were defeated, and the preliminary outline of the post-war order took shape. In this decisive decade for world destiny, new events that unfolded influenced entire generations—this book vividly reflects these events once again. Theo S?mel describes the horrors of the war, the secrets of the concentration camps, forced labor, and the displaced, as well as the lives of war criminals. The policies of the Allied powers and their increasingly exposed divisions are also covered, as are the denazification movement and the towering mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Notably, Theo S?mel uses testimonies from witnesses to recreate the daily lives and emotions of people at the time, introducing the immense terror they experienced in that era—Auschwitz, Coventry, Dresden, Hiroshima—and why they were able to recover afterward. The Year of the Great Turning Point—1945 tells the stories that unfolded in this year that reshaped the world.