War is not new nor is war over racial equality. The Civil War was over equality, and so was World War II. The enslaved people were fighting for freedom, and the jews were fighting for liberation. Adolf Hitler was the leader of Germany. The Allied powers that fought against Adolf and his followers were led by Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Charles de Gaulle, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. The leaders of the Allied powers fought for our liberty and freedom, we can’t express our gratitude enough. 

Adolf Hitler said, the “ultimate goal must definitely be the removal of the Jews altogether.” Adolf Hitler had jewish background which he said he was “ashamed” of. He ordered the extermination of over 11 million people, the majority of them Jewish, but also including Roman Catholics, Roma (gypsies), Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, the physically and mentally handicapped, and any others who did not meet Hitler’s standards for “racial purity.” One of Hitler’s friends and followers wrote in his diary, “The Jewish question is again giving us a headache; this time, however, not because we have gone too far, but because we are not going far enough.”  Hitler at this point had already killed millions of jews in concentration and death camps. 

Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30th November, 1874. Prime Minister of Great Britain during most of the war, from 1940 to 1945, Churchill led Britain to victory. During the Battle of Britain, Churchill’s speeches boosted the British morale during the darkest moments. Stalin was a very brutal Communist dictator of Russia (1928-1953). In the years before World War II Stalin murdered or imprisoned almost all of Russia’s senior military officers, and millions of other Russian citizens, in a paranoid and unprecedented wave of political terror. A French general who led the French in their fight against Germany. After World War II, he became president of France from 1958 to 1969. Later he was an architect of the Fifth Republic. 

Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States of America (1933-1945). He declared war on Japan after the bombing at Pearl Harbor, but unfortunately he did not live long enough to celebrate the Allies’ victory in September of 1945. Harry S. Truman became president of the United States in the final year of World War II. He played a major role in the war’s outcome by making the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan. Truman said in his diary, “This weapon is to be used against Japan between now and August 10th. I have told the Sec. of War, Mr. Stimson, to use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children. Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop that terrible bomb on the old capital or the new.” That was written before he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.

Adolf Hitler was a cruel and racial man. He had a vision of the world and he sought to exterminate anyone in his way. The leaders of the Allied powers had hard decisions to make, but we are eternally grateful to them. We owe these men a great deal of respect, because we would not be here without them.