Such a tag certainly put the Nuremberg trials that accompanied the end of World War II in Europe in an unexpected perspective.
The French people will get their first glimpse of the president-elect in an official role on Tuesday, as Mr. Hollande will attend national memorial ceremonies to commemorate the end of World War II in Europe, alongside Mr. Sarkozy.
Russia, in fact, was not at all pleased that President Bush decided to come here right from his trip to Moscow where he, again, took part in all of those celebrations marking 60 years since the end of World War II in Europe.
Paris has always resented Washington's post-World War II dominance in Western Europe, which is why Charles de Gaulle pulled France out of NATO's military structure in the mid-1960s.
Slovenia and Macedonia managed to break away relatively peacefully, while declarations of independence in Bosnia and Croatia led to the worst violence and war crimes seen in Europe since World War II.
In 1945, the U.S. and Soviet armies met in the east German city of Torgau as World War II drew to a close in Europe.
The Andrews Sisters sold more than 75 million records and entertained World War II troops in Africa and Europe.
In World War II German U-boats stalked Europe-bound freighters in the nearby Gulf of Mexico.
After serving as a combat infantryman in Europe during World War II, he got a law degree and began his political career in Greenwich Village by winning a district leader race as a liberal Democratic reformer.
My grandfather marched off to Europe in World War II, while my grandmother worked in factories on the home front.
Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D.
Breivik boasted Tuesday that he had carried out "the most sophisticated and spectacular political attack in Europe since World War II" when he went on his gun-and-bomb rampage.
Using materials never before available to historians, biographer Geoffrey Perret has fashioned a revealing portrait of Dwight David Eisenhower, the Allied Commander in Europe during World War II and the 34th president of the United States.
Company executives say they aim to tap into the booming middle classes in countries such as China and Indonesia that are clamoring for the same affordable but stylish furniture that made IKEA a hit in Europe after World War II.
Les was actually born in Europe, after World War II, to a family of Hungarian refugees.
We forget today how precarious the forces of democracy were in Western Europe following World War II.
It's possible to trace that cultural divide to post-World War II, said Williams, when Europe underwent its financial recovery in the 1950s and its culture was more communal.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to recognize we are on the brink of a major humanitarian disaster in Kosovo, the likes of which have not been seen in Europe since the closing days of World War II, " Shea said.
Though empires tend to fall after their Afghan skirmishes, he says, for the British this was largely down to World War II, for the Soviets, it was ideological crisis in eastern Europe and for Alexander the Great it was a failure to ensure the stable succession of his Asian empire.
"Whether we like it or not we have to recognize that we are on the brink of a major humanitarian disaster in Kosovo the likes of which have not been seen in Europe since the closing stages of World War II, " he said, adding that more than 500, 000 ethnic Albanians have now been displaced from their homes in Kosovo.
Chancellor Merkel said this week that Europe is in its toughest hour since World War II.
In 1995, leaders from former Yugoslavia signed a Bosnian peace treaty in Paris, formally ending Europe's worst conflict since World War II and opening the way for thousands of NATO troops to move into the shattered country.
This is in contrast to Europe, where both main political traditions after World War II seemed to broadly agree that while Soviet Union-style socialism didn't work, capitalism if left to its own devices produced inequalities which if not softened could prove dangerous.
In both the US and in Europe, a new generation is coming to power for whom World War II is not the defining narrative.
Before World War II, Poland was home to about 3.5 million Jews, the largest Jewish community in Europe.
Nato was set up in the post-World War II atmosphere of anxiety, largely to block Soviet expansion into Europe.
As a member of the Polish underground during World War II, Karski was the first to provide eyewitness evidence of the Nazi extermination of Jews in occupied Europe.
On the other sides, they show maps of Europe near the end of World War II, ripped by arrows representing the millions of men in armed divisions battling each other over diametrically opposed visions of what the future of Europe should be.
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In fact, many of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II were refugees from Europe.
In Switzerland the German, French and Italian communities have lived peaceably side by side for more than seven centuries, while in the rest of Europe the three groups fought one another incessantly until the end of World War II.
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