This is a wrong date for celebrating Modernity in Europe. The Morgenthau Plan should be the real political happening for celebrating materialistically unified and culturally freed Europe. It was presented the 25th of September 1944 and implemented as soon as the Germans surrendered.
Millions of humans were sacrificed for the holy intention of a New Europe. The Morgenthau Plan was a repetition of the Peace Treaty of Versailles which had already occasioned despair, starvation and death in Germany. The real plan in 1945 when Eastern and Western conquest forces met in the ruins of Germany, was unity of the victors.
The plan was that both forces melted in one big institutionalized globalistic revolution. The Morgenthau Plan was an expression of such a world-Materialistic agreement. But the Soviet State had turned Nationalistic under Stalin, specifically during war, and challenged the Capitalistic Western Modernists who were even more globalistic than the Soviets.
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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.