Azért érdemes megfontolni :

"The flags of freedom fly over all Europe," US President Harry S. Truman declared in a radio broadcast on May 8, 1945, after Germany's unconditional surrender, which marked the end of World War II in Europe. The world has been rid of Adolf Hitler, Truman added.

Indeed, the flags of freedom began to fly in Germany after the war. But historians argued for decades whether Germany had been liberated on May 8, 1945, or whether it was a question of defeat and the total breakdown of German ideas and aims.

The debate over the significance of May 8 and the question of defeat or liberation only ebbed after then President Richard von Weizsäcker gave his memorable speech to the German parliament on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war.

"May 8 was a day of liberation," Weizsäcker said. "It freed us all from the inhuman system of the National Socialist rule of terror."
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1985-ben mondta tehát..