We have all spent much of the past several weeks -- actually starting at the beginning of the year, as the front reached Bavaria early in 1945 with the extension of the aerial bombing campaign -- remembering the end of the German Grab at Global Dominion (sometimes referred to as the First and Second World Wars). Setting out from Munich, the trip to each event was shorter than the one before, as the front moved south during those weeks. The remembrances reached a kind of crescendo in the end of April with the commemorations of the liberations of Bavaria's two concentration camps, Dachau and Flossenbuerg, and Bavaria's major cities, and then concluded with three different observations of the end of the war on May 8. Throughout this process, mainstream politicians and commentators have been generally responsible
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