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Input (English): Context: The Holocaust (from the Greek ': "hólos", "whole" and "kaustós", "burnt"), also referred to as the Shoah"' (Hebrew: , "HaShoah", "the catastrophe"), was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews. The victims included 1.5 million children and represented about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe. Some definitions of the Holocaust include the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to about 11 million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany, German-occupied territories, and territories held by allies of Nazi Germany., Albert B. Meserlin , Jr. ( May 26 , 1920 -- March 29 , 2009 ) was staff photographer to General Dwight D. Eisenhower . With the passing of British Staff Sergeant Susan Hibbert , Mr. Meserlin was believed to be the last surviving witness to the German surrender ceremony at the end of World War II. As staff photographer , he also caught the surrender ceremony on camera . In May 1945 , the surrender took place in a windowless room in a corner of a small red - brick schoolhouse -- the temporary headquarters of General Dwight Eisenhower , commander - in - chief of the Allied Forces . Meserlin was in a small photography unit that lost two men in the D - Day battle at Utah Beach in France . His unit was responsible for taking photographs for newspapers and military archives . Meserlin received a Bronze Star for his meritorious service in recording the activities of the Theater Commander in all phases of the war . His outstanding devotion to duty ensured that an accurate , everlasting account of General Eisenhower 's activities for the War Department ., Susan Nona Hibbert (née Heald; 21 May 1924  2 February 2009) was one of the secretaries who typed the English versions of the German surrender document at the conclusion of the Second World War. After her death, there was believed to be only one surviving witness to the surrender ceremony, Albert Meserlin, who himself died on 29 March 2009., The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, during the final stage of World War II. The United States had dropped the bombs with the consent of the United Kingdom as outlined in the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history., Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (; October 14, 1890  March 28, 1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 194243 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 194445 from the Western Front. In 1951 he became the first Supreme Commander of NATO., Hiroshima is perhaps best known as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped an atomic bomb on the city (and later on Nagasaki) at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II., Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942., World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. Over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a result of the war (including the victims of a number of genocides), a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and the tactical stalemate caused by gruelling trench warfare. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved., World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nationsincluding all of the great powerseventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres (in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history., The United States Army (USA) is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed (14 June 1775) to fight the American Revolutionary War (17751783)before the U.S. was established as a country. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784, to replace the disbanded Continental Army. The United States Army considers itself descended from the Continental Army, and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775., Subject: albert meserlin, Relation: date_of_death, Options: (A) 1 (B) 129 (C) 14 (D) 1775 (E) 1914 (F) 1918 (G) 1939 (H) 1944 (I) 1945 (J) 1961 (K) 2 (L) 2 february 2009 (M) 21 (N) 21 may 1924 (O) 26 (P) 28 (Q) 29 (R) 29 march 2009 (S) 30 (T) 301 (U) 43 (V) 45 (W) 6 (X) 70 (Y) 8 (Z) 8 november 1942 ([) 9 (\) may 1924 (]) november 1918 (^) november 1942
Output (English): 29 march 2009