Today marks the anniversary of the second world war.
Perhaps the greatest man made disaster with 50-60 million direct deaths and global damage.
The date is easy for e to recall as you had to be 20 to join the fun and it was my Dad's 20th birthday.
He volunteered for the navy and ended up in Burma and ended as a Captain in Calcutta.
I am surprised how little mention in the press or perhaps the lessons still to be learned as we witness nazi salutes in Chemnitz which never happened when it was Karl Marx Stadt