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What did the defeat of Nazism meant to Europe?

What did the End of Nazism meant for Europe?

After the well-known Battle of Berlin, the German surrender is inevitable in front of the Allies. It is due to this that Nazism is finally over in Europe, provoking that the capitalist and even soviet controls reorganize and redraw Europe for a second time after a World War. Even though war was not officially over in the whole world, Europe was already safe from fascist regimes.

The Allies first and primordial objective was “Europe first”, which meant that they first needed to free Europe in order to have the chance of defeating the Axis Powers in the rest of the world. As soon as the capitalist and soviet powers defeat the Nazi control in Berlin, Europe was finally free; which meant that the war was coming finally to an end. The “Europe First” campaign meant that they will use all the forces and resources they had to defeat Nazism and end the war.

In the particular case of Europe, the defeat of Nazism meant the final liberation of the Jews in the different concentration camps along the continent. After the war was over the Jewish people were liberated by the Allied and Soviet forces and the people that were still alive could finally rest and were free from that torture.

The defeat of Nazism also meant that once again, the supremacy of the capitalist and democratic power has been proved worldwide. Capitalist governments like Great Britain and United States were back on having most of the control and commerce and economy was becoming again what it was before.

For Germany in particular the end of the war and of Nazism meant a complete reconstruction of the country, as well as in their government and institutions. The end of Nazism also meant the end of an era of chaos and disorder, people could finally rest in peace and being sure of simple things, like for example which country they belong to.

To conclude, the end of Nazism didn’t only meant that but also the end of an era and the start of a different world. It meant freedom, capitalism and security.  Europe was never the same after World War II and many countries had to recover what they had lost.

Here is a short video explaining the Battle of Berlin and the defeat of Nazism:

Allies' strategy in Berlin

Germans began to realize that the war is slipping from their hands. The advancing Red Army and Poland and parts of Germany, while the Americans and British liberated Belgium and Holland and went in southern Germany. . Churchill ordered not to take Berlin before the Russians arrived, so the city fell into Russian hands without the Americans could do anything. By this time Italy surrendered on april 29.
In May the North German troops surrender, and three days later signed the total surrender of the German army. Berlin suffered the humiliation of being divided among the allies. In February 1945, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta, where, inter alia, decided the details of the final assault on Germany and its subsequent division into zones of occupation.In June 1948, Britain, France and America united their zones into a new country, West Germany. On 23 June 1948, they introduced a new currency, which they said would help trade.The next day, Stalin cut off all rail and road links to west Berlin - the Berlin Blockade. The west saw this as an attempt to starve Berlin into surrender, so they decided to supply west Berlin by air.

The Berlin Blockade lasted 318 days. During this time, 275,000 planes transported 1.5 million tons of supplies and a plane landed every three minutes at Berlin's Templehof airport.On April 30, with Soviet troops in the districts of Berlin, Hitler committed suicide with his mistress Eva Braun and Goebbels. On May 2 Berlin surrenders. On May 7, the Germans signed the unconditional surrender at Eisenhower's headquarters the next day, the firm produces in Zhukov's headquarters. In July, the Allies celebrated their last major conference in Potsdam, just outside Berlin.