V Was for Victory

April - August 1945. Hitler said, "Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos." In 1945, his swaggering conquerors goose-step no longer. Germany is beaten. VE Day celebrations verge on the hysterical, buy occupying armies uncover the sobering import of the tyrannies of Belsen, Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Franklin D. Roosevelt dies. In Japan, the world's first atomic bomb is dropped.