The event that turned the tide for a world facing a bleak Nazi future, were the D-Day landings in Normandy and a three-pronged Allied effort from British and American troops.

World War II veterans were commemorated and netizens went about seeking details of the epic military turnaround as stories of unflappable courage surfaced.

There were moving incidents related by troops who fought in the European theatre of war, be it northern France ,Holland, Belgium or Germany as the last bastion fell. A veteran related how seeds given with foresight from America in the hands of troops helped a German village to fight famine as the grim snow-laden conditions worsened.

The American troops on the Weser River helped the German villagers plant crops,said a veteran suffering from shell shock who was mum for the most part on his experiences, but lit up when he narrated the planting incident.

The blood has dried on the tracks and fresh grass grows over mass graves, as Alain Resnais put forth in his Holocaust documentary Night and Documentary. Be it Auschwitz or Dachau or the countless other concentration camps where millions of Jews were gassed, there are only mute traces, says Stephen Greenblatt of the voices who prayed, wept and were silenced forever.

The Battlefields of Normandy too tell an epic tale of courage that swing the war against the Nazis. The Germans today may say that that have atoned enough for the sins of a past generation, but the truth is that many German corporations that thrived in Nazi Germany are still flourishing, so as Art Spiegelman says, we should all feel guity. Remember that next time you ride your Volkswagen.
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