05-07-2020, 05:42 PM
It is arguable that the most joyful time is the end of the Crisis Era... for the winners if their world isn't destroyed.
![[Image: 300px-Churchill_waves_to_crowds.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Churchill_waves_to_crowds.jpg/300px-Churchill_waves_to_crowds.jpg)
On the other hand, the man signing the document of surrender in this photo
![[Image: 244px-Field_Marshall_Keitel_signs_German...ration.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Field_Marshall_Keitel_signs_German_surrender_terms_in_Berlin_8_May_1945_-_Restoration.jpg/244px-Field_Marshall_Keitel_signs_German_surrender_terms_in_Berlin_8_May_1945_-_Restoration.jpg)
(Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, effectively the top general in the Third Reich mostly for being the most spineless lackey in the Wehrmacht) would eventually be hanged about a year and a half later after being convicted in the main Nuremberg trial for planning the war of aggression, forced disappearances (resulting in the death of those persons), signing orders authorizing crimes against captured enemy soldiers, and above all prohibiting interference in the massacres of the large Jewish populations in the occupied Soviet Union.
On the other hand, the man signing the document of surrender in this photo
(Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, effectively the top general in the Third Reich mostly for being the most spineless lackey in the Wehrmacht) would eventually be hanged about a year and a half later after being convicted in the main Nuremberg trial for planning the war of aggression, forced disappearances (resulting in the death of those persons), signing orders authorizing crimes against captured enemy soldiers, and above all prohibiting interference in the massacres of the large Jewish populations in the occupied Soviet Union.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.