On Remembering World War Two

Eighty years ago, Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered. War in Europe had finished.

This is, I think most of us will agree, a difficult occasion to celebrate — not because May 8 1945 was not a joyous event — it was — but because May 8 2025 sees Europe in such a depressing state. Populations are angry — and justly so — about economic decline and demog…