1945 yılında İkinci Dünya Savaşı sona erdi.
- World War Two ended in 1945.
Gerhard Schröder, II. Dünya Savaşı boyunca yaşamayan ilk şansölyedir.
- Gerhard Schroeder is the first German chancellor not to have lived through World War II.
Armageddon, that world war with which the Second Coming is to be so closely associated. (Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow 1921, ix.).