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Interviewer:

That was Wickard's.

“May 7, Germany surrendered.”

Perkins:

That was V.E. Day.

Interviewer:

“May 7, Hannegan approved by the Senate as Postmaster General.”

Perkins:

Now, what did we do on VE Day? That was a very great... Of course it had been obvious, at least to those of us who were in a position to get--

Yes, I know it was no end of the War to you. No. But of course you must remember that here it was. It was the end of the War. It was the end of the War, because here it had begun. You see, it was the end of those that had begun the War. And the animosity to the Germans, remember, had grown and grown and grown. It was bad enough at the beginning. Their impertinence in invading Poland, and their terrible way of throwing themselves around, and the idiotic fantastic performances of Hitler--Hitler's dancing, you know, and the concentration camps.

Did you know, the concentration camps had only just begin to dawn? We hadn't overrun them. It was only within the last few weeks that the concentration camps had come to view. I mean, we had known vaguely that Jews were arrested and sent to a concentration camp, or sent to a camp, or sent





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