Today, 75 years ago

[Klaus]

WW2 ended.

Took around 19 deaths per minute.

[jon-nyc]

Europe celebrates May 8 as the day the war ended. We call that VE (Victory, Europe) Day. VJ Day was August 15th and was a much bigger celebration here, because then it was finally over.

When I lived in Paris in 2002 it was a public holiday, things were closed.

[Doctor Phibes]

The UK had planned all kinds of celebrations for this - they moved the normal May Day holiday to today. Sadly, but not surprisingly pretty much everything's cancelled that would have involved any kind of social contact.

[89th]

Can we focus for a minute on the fact that Doctor Phibes is from GROSSBRITANN?

[Improviso]

@89th said in Today, 75 years ago:

Can we focus for a minute on the fact that Doctor Phibes is from GROSSBRITANN?

Focusing... focusing....

Ok... I'm done.

[Doctor Phibes]

Never eat pears!

[Doctor Phibes]

Rather disappointing that the chart doesn't show Canadian WW2 casualties.

[Copper]

There are some significant differences with this:

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war

I have no idea which is more accurate. They might be counting different things.

[Copper]

and another

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties