05/11/2025
AFTER VE DAY - JUSTICE AND RETRIBUTION on this week's Time Machine broadcast. 80 years ago, the week of May 8th, 1945, and the allied world was celebrating the end of World War II in Europe...but after the partying ended, there was grim work to be done in the aftermath of the conflict. Europe was in chaos, cities in ruins, with broken masses seeking shelter, food, medicine. The black market was rampant, and even though the shooting war was officially over, the allied peacekeepers were still in the crosshairs of those who formerly wore the uniform of the N***s. It was a dangerous time, those years following the second world war. In Germany, where it all began in the 1930's with Hi**er's mad plan of world domination and ethnic cleansing, there was justice to be had for those left behind. Judgement Day had arrived for those responsible for the terror of the Final Solution. A series of trials before a United States Military Court were scheduled, to close the door on N**i Germany. By the Fall of '45 they had begun. Adolf Hi**er was not there, however, as he had escaped prosecution and retribution earlier that year in a bunker in Berlin with a single shot from a Walther PPK. But others in the Reich remained, from the top German officials on down the line to those underlings who aided the twisted regime.
"After VE Day - Justice and Retribution" hosted by Paul McGehee