Britain’s second-world-war veterans are dying out
The country celebrates the last big anniversary with the generation that beat Hitler
Winston Churchill was clear. “My dear friends,” he said on May 8th 1945, standing on a balcony in Whitehall to address the cheering crowds below. “This is your hour.” Victory, he said, did not belong to one group. It was not one party or class that had led Britain “from the jaws of death, out of the mouth of hell”. All Britons had. This was a “victory of the great British nation as a whole”.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The very few”
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