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I don’t know about “realizing his mistake” but Hitler did help end the war by killing Hitler. I think I would pick that option since it is the closest of the wrong answers.
Fascist glorifying Hitler forgetting that Hitler killed the nazi leader.
The top right is not entirely wrong.
It’s pretty wrong. He didn’t realize a mistake. He killed himself because he was a coward and had lost. Also, it was only the end of the war in Europe. Japan was still fighting.
Also, the Atomic bomb didn’t and the war in Japan. It took two of those and a very real threat of the Soviets invading from the north to convince the emperor to surrender and even then there was a coup to try and stop him.
Also the implicit threat of the second bomb was “we can do this every day”. No one knew they barely scraped together three bombs.
Yeah, the common portrayal is they ended the war but, like everything, it’s much more complicated than that.
He realized he fucked up
But that was thanks to the combined efforts of the allies.
I find it interesting that three of these are VE and the only true one is VJ.
Honestly I’m curious how many Americans understand that VE was well before VJ and occurred when the soviets had shelled Berlin and were in the process of taking it, so the newly appointed leader of nazi high command reached out to the western front to surrender.
What does VE and VJ mean?
Victory Europe and Victory Japan, the two fronts of the war (from America’s perspective)
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As someone with a military history obsessed father, it would be a crime if I didn’t at least passively absorb this fact.
Well the 90’s kids probably all know, the history channel we had growing up was pretty much just world war 2 documentaries.
That’s pretty common knowledge, as far as I’m aware (at the very least, that VE was well before VJ).
