COMMENT | Today, April 30, is a critical day in 20th century history. Two transformational events occurred: the first, 80 years ago, and the second 50 years ago.
On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler, one of history’s most evil tyrants, committed suicide, which immediately brought to an end the European phase of the Second World War, which he had unleashed.
On April 30, 1975, the military forces of North Vietnam captured Saigon, thereby inflicting the most shameful defeat on the world’s greatest superpower, the United States, in the Vietnam War. Yet has mankind learnt any lessons from these epochal wars as we complete the first quarter of the 21st century?
