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France experienced a baby boom after 1945; it reversed a long-term record of low birth rates. In addition, there was a steady immigration, especially from former French colonies in North Africa. The population grew from 41 million in 1946, to 50 million in 1966, and 60 million by 1990.
Anno Domini. Anno Domini inscription at Klagenfurt Cathedral, Austria. The terms anno Domini ( AD) and before Christ ( BC) [a] are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The term anno Domini is Medieval Latin and means "in the year of the Lord" [1] but is often presented using "our Lord" instead of "the Lord", [2] [3 ...
The accessus ad auctores ('introduction to authors') was a literary genre of the Middle Ages. Originally, an accessus was the introduction at the beginning of a commentary on a classical author, containing background information on the author and his work. Beginning in the 12th century, these accessus [a] were excerpted from the commentaries ...
1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
May 15, 1945 (Tuesday) The Battle of Poljana ended in victory for the Yugoslav Partisans. The naval engagement known as the Battle of the Malacca Strait began between five British destroyers and one Japanese heavy cruiser and one destroyer. Japan abrogated all treaties with Germany, Italy and the other Axis countries.
The Franco-German friendship became the basis for the political integration of Western Europe in the European Union. In 1998–1999, Germany was one of the founding countries of the eurozone. Germany remains one of the economic powerhouses of Europe, contributing about 1/4 of the eurozone's annual gross domestic product.
The Holocaust was the systematic murder of around six million Jews between 1941 to 1945. [137] [138] Initially it was carried out in German-occupied Eastern Europe by special paramilitary death squads ( Einsatzgruppen ) by shooting or, less frequently, using ad hoc built gassing vans , and later in extermination camps by gassing. [139]
