How April 1945 Proved to Be 'Hinge of History'
A single month determined the course of the 20th century.\nThat\u2019s what historian Craig Shirley writes about in his newest book, \u201cApril 1945: The Hinge of History.\u201d\nIt\u2019s Shirley\u2019s follow-up to \u201cDecember 1941,\u201d in which the author and political consultant recounted stories from the lives of leaders and everyday Americans during the attack on Pearl Harbor and the days that followed.\nThe events of April 1945 are the bookend to the greatest war in human history, as Shirley outlines on this episode of \u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast.\u201d\nPresident Franklin Roosevelt died, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was captured and executed by his angry countrymen, and Adolf Hitler shot himself in a Berlin bunker alongside his mistress, Eva Braun, as the Red Army and Western armies closed in. Discovery of Nazi death camps at Dachau and Auschwitz revealed the depth of evil committed by the Nazi regime.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s really interesting,\u201d Shirley says, \u201cis that The New York Times and The Washington Post rarely if ever reported that it was Jews who were primarily being exterminated by the Nazis.\u201d\nWhat followed was a world wholly changed. As the German Reich crumbled and the war drew down to its last days, the United States found itself in a new position as the unquestioned leader of the free world.\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.