May 8

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Victory in Europe Day
by Axelle et Elise

May 8th is a bank holiday to commemorate the end world war II.
It lasted from 1939 to 1945. The countries involved were : Germany,
Japan, Italy, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, the Soviet Union, the
United Kingdom, the United States, China, France, Poland, Canada,
Australia, Yugoslavia, Greece, the Netherlands, Belgium, South
Africa, New Zealand, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopa, Brazil,
Denmark, Luxembourg, Cuba, Mexico. All in all 73 000 000 people,
civil and military, died.

The French president and The German Chancellor stood together in
front of the grave of the unknown soldier under the Arc de
Triomphe in Paris to say : NEVER AGAIN !