«Very late the next night, however, something happened that did change the plan. The Soviet Union declared war and launched a broad surprise attack on Japanese forces in Manchuria. In that instant, Japan’s strategy was ruined. Stalin would not be extracting concessions from the Americans. And the approaching Red Army brought new concerns: The military position was more dire, and it was hard to imagine occupying communists allowing Japan’s traditional imperial system to continue. Better to surrender to Washington than to Moscow.», «Why did Japan surrender?», fra avisen Boston Globe, 7. august 2011
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«Two Plus Four Treaty». the Federal Foreign Office. 10. september 2015. Besøkt 7. august 2024. «On 12 September 1990 in Moscow they signed the Two Plus Four Treaty, which was named after the groups of countries involved. On 1 October 1990, in a joint declaration in New York, the four victorious powers of the Second World War waived their rights with regard to Germany, thereby granting the Federal Republic full sovereignty. On 15 March 1991 the Two Plus Four Treaty entered into force. It was the foreign policy complement to the unification treaty between the Federal Republic and the GDR.»
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MacKenzie, S. P. (1994). «The Treatment of Prisoners of War in World War II». The Journal of Modern History. 3 (på engelsk). 66: 487–520. ISSN0022-2801. doi:10.1086/244883. Besøkt 4. juni 2023. «Obtaining an exact figure for the number of POWs is made virtually impossible by the inexactness or unavailability of the records kept by many of the belligerents. The figure of 35 million was put forward by K. W. Bohme, Zur Geschichte der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des Zweiten Weltkrieges, 15 vols. (Munich, 1962-74), 1, pt. 1:x»
Michael Marek (27. oktober 2005). «Final Compensation Pending for Former Nazi Forced Laborers» (på engelsk). Tyskland: Deutsche Welle. Besøkt 4. oktober 2024. «During World War II, about 12 million people were kidnapped from their homes across Europe and beyond and forced to work for the Nazi regime in Germany.»
«Research Starters: Worldwide Deaths in World War II». The National WWII Museum, New Orleans, USA. Besøkt 15. april 2022. «Country: China, Military Deaths: 3–4,000,000, Total Civilian and Military Deaths: 20,000,000. Worldwide casualty estimates vary widely in several sources. The number of civilian deaths in China alone might well be more than 50,000,000.»
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Hildingson, Kaj (1990). Øst-Europa. Oversatt av Ulshagen, Torgeir. Oslo: Gyldendal. s. 59. ISBN8205192715. «I andre verdenskrig stod Bulgaria i begynnelsen på Hitler-Tysklands side. Tyske tropper fikk gå gjennom landet og forberede angrep på Hellas og Jugoslavia. I bytte fikk Bulgaria okkupere landområder i Hellas og Jugoslavia.»
Galford, Ellen (1987). Øst-Europa. Oslo: Gyldendal. s. 33. ISBN8205173052. Besøkt 29. september 2024. «Men på det tidspunkt var nesten 90 % av Warszwawa (sic) blitt jevnet med jorden eller sto tilbake som gapende vegger uten gulv og tak. Mer enn 11 000 bygninger var fullstendig ødelagt og ytterligere 14 000 var alvorlig skadd. Av byens 957 historiske bygninger lå 782 i ruiner og mer enn 90 % av fabrikkene var ødelagt.»
Nisja-Wilhelmsen, Pål (25. mars 2012). «Da det ble fred med Japan». Nettavisen (på norsk). Besøkt 29. juli 2024. «Den 28.april 1952 ble det offisielt fred mellom Japan og 48 andre land, deriblant Norge. Da trådde det som ble kalt "Treaty of Peace with Japan" i kraft. Fredsavtalen ble underskrevet den 8. september 1951 etter stor dramatikk i San Francisco.»
Richard Overy (7. mai 2005). «We must not forget how war was won». The Guardian. Besøkt 23. desember 2021. «Nor should we forget, when condemning Soviet repression in eastern Europe that allied airforces bombed German and Japanese cities up to the very end of the war, inflicting the deaths of more than 600,000 civilians and opening the nuclear age. After 1945 Britain and France re-imposed undemocratic imperial rule in Africa and south-east Asia. None of the victors has anything to feel smug about. The pursuit of victory made all the allies do things they might never have imagined themselves doing.»
MacKenzie, S. P. (1994). «The Treatment of Prisoners of War in World War II». The Journal of Modern History. 3 (på engelsk). 66: 487–520. ISSN0022-2801. doi:10.1086/244883. Besøkt 4. juni 2023. «Obtaining an exact figure for the number of POWs is made virtually impossible by the inexactness or unavailability of the records kept by many of the belligerents. The figure of 35 million was put forward by K. W. Bohme, Zur Geschichte der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des Zweiten Weltkrieges, 15 vols. (Munich, 1962-74), 1, pt. 1:x»
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«Decolonization». United Nations. Besøkt 10. juni 2024. «The Charter also created the Trusteeship Council as a main organ of the UN. It was to monitor the situation in 11 specific “Trust Territories” which were subject to separate agreements with administering States. These territories had been formally administered under mandates from the League of Nations, or separated from countries defeated in the Second World War, or voluntarily placed under the system by their administering Power. Eleven Territories were placed under this system. All 11 territories that were once under the United Nations Trusteeship have either become independent states or have voluntarily joined neighboring independent countries. The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Palau), which was administered by the United States, was the last territory to become independent in 1994. This happened after a plebiscite in 1993, through which Palau chose to have a free association with the United States. The island country became the 185th member state of the United Nations after it gained independence.»
MacKenzie, S. P. (1994). «The Treatment of Prisoners of War in World War II». The Journal of Modern History. 3 (på engelsk). 66: 487–520. ISSN0022-2801. doi:10.1086/244883. Besøkt 4. juni 2023. «Obtaining an exact figure for the number of POWs is made virtually impossible by the inexactness or unavailability of the records kept by many of the belligerents. The figure of 35 million was put forward by K. W. Bohme, Zur Geschichte der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des Zweiten Weltkrieges, 15 vols. (Munich, 1962-74), 1, pt. 1:x»
