World War II was one of the largest battles in human history, ranging from Europe to Asia and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 61 countries have been involved in the war, causing a total casualty of more than 90 million soldiers and civilians, which is an unprecedented war. The initiators of this war were the three fascist Axis powers of Nazi Germany, the Japanese Empire and the Kingdom of Italy.
Among them, Germany was not only a defeated country in the Second World War, but also a defeated country in the First World War, and all of them played the role of an aggressor, and it was precisely because of these two world wars that Germany became devastated from the world's top developed countries after the war, and Germany after the end of World War II almost became a ruin.
In addition, at the end of the war, Germany was directly divided into East Germany and West Germany, with West Germany under the responsibility of the United States and East Germany under the responsibility of the Soviet Union. Thus East and West Germany faced each other for nearly half a century, until they were reunified in the 1990s. But the matter is not over, and they still have a large amount of war reparations to pay back.
The reparations include the total amount of reparations of the First World War and the Second World War of nearly one trillion, because the compensation is too large, so Germany can only pay in installments, until 2010 Germany did not repay the Reparations of the First World War, and the Reparations of the Second World War were even larger, so it has not been fully repaid so far.
It can be said that if this money had been used for Germany's economic construction early, Then Today's Germany is probably much richer. But Germany has not been able to repay and make up for the damage caused to the countries of the world after the war. The 1970 Warsaw kneeling shows Germany's sincerity.
The Warsaw Kneeling took place on December 7, 1970, when Hitler's ambition to establish the "Greater German Empire" led to the conquest of Austria by force and the transformation of it into a German province. Czechoslovakia was occupied again in March 1939. Of its eastern neighbors, only Poland had not yet been annexed by Germany.
Poland was already a fish bone in the throat for Degu, so on September 1, 1939, the German army expelled 2,500 tanks, 2,300 aircraft, and 1.5 million troops, vowing to conquer Poland in one fell swoop, and under the attack of German lightning tactics, the Polish military defense line quickly collapsed. Poland was soon occupied by Germany as well.
Soon after the German occupation of Poland, the "extermination of the Jews" was launched, and in November 1940 the German army carried out a brutal massacre of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto, and by the end of 1943, nearly 400,000 Jews had been killed, and the quarantine area was finally razed to the ground by the German army. Poland could not say anything more than to say that Nazi Germany was as deep as the sea. Brandt, as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, came here with great courage, and Brandt's kneeling also dispelled the impression of cold-bloodedness and ruthlessness in the hearts of the people of Eastern Europe.
Comparatively speaking, Japan, which was also one of the fascist Axis powers during World War II, should really study it well, and Japan is still maliciously tampering with textbooks and beautifying the war, and even refuses to admit the various crimes committed in China, so that today, 75 years after World War II, many Japanese people do not know what terrible things the Japanese army has done on the battlefield. Germany's experience tells us that only when we face our faults squarely can we reduce them. Japan's behavior will only make people more chilling.