"A peace that passeth all understanding came to the world this week. It was anti-climactic, it was premature, it was confusing, it was the greatest news snafu of all time – but it was wonderful. On the 2,075th day of the biggest, costliest war in history, some 25,000,000 men ceased fighting. The hardest peace in modern times was meted out to Germany by the 48 countries that had declared war on the Reich. Ahead lay the problems of the peace and the hard struggle to bring to an end the other half of the global war, the war against Japan. But a great burden was lifted from much of mankind. It was the official news for which the world had been waiting for nearly two weeks. And in one of the greatest scoops in journalistic history, the Associated Press broke the news of the German capitulation 24 hours before the official release."
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