1939 to 1945
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About 6 million European Jews were killed in the Holocaust and millions more were killed in the global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2023
Last year, Vienne attended an exhibition, “You’re Not Going to Dance Anymore!” at the Isère Resistance and Deportation Museum in Grenoble, France, that focused on clandestine balls in the war years 1939 to 1945.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2022
He produces one chart that essentially tells the whole history of World War II and thus, to a significant degree, of the 20th century: It measures warship tonnages from 1939 to 1945.
From Washington Post • May 20, 2022
World War II, a savage conflict fought across the globe from 1939 to 1945, gave birth to NATO, a transatlantic alliance of the U.S. and major Western European nations.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2022
Instead of conserving natural wealth, rationing it and thus extending its use to succeeding generations, western man has burnt it up in the firestorms deliberately kindled during the seven disaster years from 1939 to 1945.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott
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