May 8 1945, the day the Allied Forces declared
victory over Nazi Germany of Adolf Hitler at the end of the Second
World War, is a date observed in a very big way in France and other
parts of Europe bythe laying of wreaths in memory of all those Jews and
soldiers who lost their lives in the hands of the Nazis. But wait a
minute, the victims of the Nazi Camps were not all Jews; they included
hundreds of blacks of African descent, most of whom were brought in to
fight on the side of the Allied Forces. [more]
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