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| | | [1939-1945] - by the end of the war the total number of Jews killed by the Nazis is around 6 million | |
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| 1945 |
| | | [1939-1945] - in addition to 6 million Jews, the Nazi death camps have killed some 400,000 Gypsies and 100,000 'useless defectives' | |
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| 1945 October 15 |
| | | Vichy leader Pierre Laval, sentenced in a French court as a collaborator, is executed | |
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| 1945 October 24 |
| | | Vidkun Quisling, Fascist president of occupied Norway from 1942, is tried and executed for treason | |
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| 1945 October 24 |
| | | Fifty-one states agree the Charter of the United Nations, thus establishing the UN | |
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| 1945 November 20 |
| | | Twenty-two German defendants are put on trial in Nuremberg, charged with war crimes | |
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| 1946 January I |
| | | The Japanese emperor Hirohito renounces his traditional divine status and declares that he is mortal | |
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| 1946 January 5 |
| | | William Joyce, widely known as Lord Haw-Haw, is hanged by the British as a traitor | |
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| 1946 March 5 |
| | | Winston Churchill, in a speech in Fulton, Missouri, expresses the harsh truth that an iron curtain has descended across Europe | |
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| 1946 March 27 |
| | | Twenty-five Japanese defendants are put on trial in Tokyo, charged with war crimes | |
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