The Changing of America & Tennessee - The Knoxville Focus
By Ray Hill As 1945 came to a close, the Second World War had been won by the Allied nations. Adolf Hitler had shot himself in his underground bunker as the Red Army overran his capital of Berlin. Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, had been executed by his own people and strung up by his heels at a filling station, along with the bodies of his mistress and several compatriots where their corpses were abused by angry citizens. The Japanese Empire had crumbled with President Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Japan’s Emperor, Hirohito, who was co...