On May 8th, 1945, allied forces destroyed the national socialist dream of the “Thousand-Year Reich”. The German army, including the Volkssturm’s last mobilisation, had been defeated, Hitler had taken his own life in the Führerbunker in Berlin, numerous Nazi grandees had been imprisoned or executed, any national socialist organization structures had been broken up and banned, it was time to eliminate the influence the national socialist ideology had on all parts of society. Shocked by...
