BERLIN - Germany has been forced to cancel public events to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe but Berliners need no ceremonies to remember their downfall - the scars of w
ar are all around them.
This replaces a previously planned larger ceremony including foreign diplomats and young people plus a range of events including an art installation documenting the last days of the war and tracing the path to democracy, which will now go online."Today you can say we were freed from the Nazi dictatorship but most Germans were defeated. They were perpetrators, not victims of Nazism," said Bjoern Weigel, curator of the "75th Anniversary of the End of the War" art project.
Vivid reminders of the battle still disfigure Berlin buildings, offering evidence of fierce fighting.
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