>Marcia, there's a fact that can't be denied, a fact I'll always remind others when the converation gets to this point....we "nasty, imperialistic, war-mongering" Americans freed Europe from totalitarianism....not once, but twice.
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>And it's obvious that we were wrong to do it. We should have left them to enjoy the Reich.
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>Yes, it was with our help that WWII was finally won. And I wouldn't be here if the US hadn't entered the war because my father was a Holocaust survivor - he speant 8 months in Auschwitz and was moved to Dachau because the Russians were getting too close and that was where he was liberated. It was a miracle that he survived.
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>Having said that, I believe that if it had not been for the efforts of England during the Blitz, it would have all been over before we got involved. Obviously I am an Anglophile (look who I married <g>), but when I first moved to England, I went to see the Cabinet War Rooms. It was a very moving experience. If it had not been for the work that was done there, I believe that we would all be speaking German right now.

In the mid 80s I visited Dachau. During the same period I also visited East Berlin and met a man who was cut off from his wife ever since the day they closed the border. Both are imprinted on my memory forever like they were yesterday. Those are the things I will remember most, not the discussions here on what each nation did to fight and end the war.