Question: What was Europe's condition at the end of WWII?
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  4 January — WWII: (Axis powers): Luftwaffe General Hermann Göring assumes control of most war industries in Germany.
10 January — WWII: Mechelen Incident: A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries.
16 February — WWII: Altmark Incident: The British destroyer "Cossack" pursues the German tanker "Altmark" into Jøssingfjord in southwestern Norway.
18 March — WWII: Axis powers: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
31 March — WWII: Commerce raiding "hilfskreuzer Atlantis", leaves the Wadden Sea for what will become the longest warship cruise of the war.
(622 days without in-port replenishment or repair)  9 April — WWII: Germany carries out Operation Weserübung, and invades Denmark and Norway.
German forces land in several Norwegian ports and take Oslo; The Norwegian Campaign lasts two months.
The Allied campaign in Norway is simultaneously commenced.
9 April — German invasion of Norway: German heavy cruiser "Blücher" is sunk by gunfire and torpedoes from the Norwegian coastal fortress Oscarsborg in the Oslofjord.
Of the 2,202 German crew and troops on board, some 830 died (at least 320 of them crewmen).
Most either drowned or burnt to death in the flaming oil slick surrounding the wreck.
20 April - on his 51st birthday, Hitler orders a new SS regiment to be set containing Norwegians and Danes as well as Germans  10 May — WWII: Battle of France begins – German forces invade Low Countries.
13 May — WWII: German armies open a wide breach in the Maginot Line at Sedan, France.
14 May — Rotterdam is subjected to savage terror bombing by the Luftwaffe; 980 are killed, and 20,000 buildings destroyed.
17 May — Brussels falls to German forces.
20 May — WWII: German forces (2nd Panzer division), under General Rudolf Veiel, reach Noyelles on the English Channel.
20 May — Holocaust: The Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the German concentration camps, opens in occupied Poland near the town of Oświęcim.
Between May 1940 and January 1945, around 1.1 million people were killed there.
3 June — The Holocaust: Nazi leader Franz Rademacher proposes the Madagascar Plan according to which the Jewish population of Europe would be relocated to the island of Madagascar.
3 June — WWII: Paris is bombed by the Luftwaffe for the first time.
10 June — WWII: Norway surrenders to German forces.
14 June — WWII: Paris falls under German occupation.
15 June — WWII: Verdun falls to German forces.
17 June — A Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber sinks the British ship "RMS Lancastria", which was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France, killing some 5,800 men.
(Wartime censorship prevents the story from becoming public.)
21 June — WWII: Vichy France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, in the same wagon-lit railroad car used by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to accept the surrender of Germany in 1918.
23 June — WWII: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
30 June — WWII: German forces land in Guernsey, marking the start of the 5-year Occupation of the Channel Islands.
14 July — WWII: Winston Churchill, in a worldwide broadcast, proclaims the intention of Great Britain to fight alone against Germany whatever the outcome.
19 July — WWII: Adolf Hitler promotes 12 generals to field marshal during the 1940 Field Marshal Ceremony following the swift victory over France, and makes a peace appeal to Britain in an address to the Reichstag.
Lord Halifax, British foreign minister, flatly rejects peace terms in a broadcast reply on 22 July.
8 August — WWII: Wilhelm Keitel signs the "Aufbau Ost" directive, which eventually leads to the invasion of the Soviet Union.
30 August — Second Vienna Award: Germany and Italy compel Romania to cede half of Transylvania to Hungary.
5 September — WWII: Commerce raiding "hilfskreuzer Komet" enters the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait after crossing the Arctic Ocean from the North Sea with the help of Soviet icebreakers "Lenin", "Stalin", and "Kaganovich".
7 September — WWII: The Blitz – Germany begins to rain bombs on London (the first of 57 consecutive nights of strategic bombing).
27 September — WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
18 October – 19 October — WWII: Thirty-two ships are sunk from Convoy SC 7 and Convoy HX 79 by the most effective wolfpack of the war including U-boat aces Kretschmer, Prien and Schepke  11 November — WWII: The German "Hilfskreuzer" (commerce raider) "Atlantis" captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
14 November — WWII: The city of Coventry, England is destroyed by 500 German Luftwaffe bombers (150,000 fire bombs, 503 tons of high explosives, and 130 parachute mines level 60,000 of the city's 75,000 buildings; 568 people are killed).
16 November — WWII: In response to Germany levelling Coventry 2 days before, the Royal Air Force begins to bomb Hamburg (by war's end, 50,000 Hamburg residents will have died from Allied attacks).
18 November — WWII: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.
12 December & 15 December — WWII: "Sheffield Blitz" – The City of Sheffield is badly damaged by German air-raids.
16 December — WWII: Operation Abigail Rachel – RAF bombing of Mannheim.
29 December — WWII: Luftwaffe carries out a massive incendiary bombing raid on London, starting 1,500 fires.
Many famous buildings, including the Guildhall and Trinity House, are either damaged or destroyed.  
In the 19th century Romania was considered part of Europe's breadbasket. 
From 1935 to the end of WWII, this location was known as the Sagami Army Arsenal, where Mitsubishi developed and manufactured tanks for use by the Imperial Japanese Army. 
The "War" novels include:  "What Happened to the Corbetts" (1938; U.S Title: Ordeal), foretells the German bombing of Southampton during WWII.  ""
(1940): A young RAF pilot and a British barmaid fall in love.
His career suffers a setback when he sinks a sub, which his higher-ups believe was British.
"Pied Piper" (1942).
An old man rescues seven children (one of them the niece of a Gestapo officer) from France during the Nazi invasion.
"Pastoral" (1944): Crew relations and love at an airbase in rural surroundings in wartime England.
"Most Secret" (1945): Unconventional attacks on German forces during WWII, using a French fishing boat.
"The Chequer Board" (1947): A dying man looks up three wartime comrades, one of which sees Burma during Japanese occupation and in its independence period after the war.
The novel contains an interesting discussion of racism in the U.S. and in the U.S. Army stationed in Britain: British townsfolk prefer the company of black soldiers.
"The Seafarers" (2000): Novella recently published but written in 1946-7.
The story of a dashing British naval Lieutenant and a Wren who meet right at the end of the Second World War.
Their romance is blighted by differences in social background and economic constraints; in unhappiness each turns to odd jobs in boating circles.  
The Libertas Charter (archived here) defined what was considered to be Europe's traditional values and influences, asserted what citizens' rights and responsibilities were, acknowledged the EU's role since WWII, stated that the present EU's structure was inherently undemocratic and unaccountable, and pledged to create a popular movement to debate Europe's future.
The charter was signed by the following:  Declan J. Ganley  Naoise Nunn  Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev  Paul MacDonnell  Carlos Rodriguez  Dr. Jana Hybaskowa, MEP  Ivan Gabal  Dr. Chris Coughlan  Professor Roger Downer  Artur Osuchowski  Stephen Nolan  Dr. Eamonn Conway  Eamonn Cregan  Gerard Lawless  Diego Solana  Francis O'Flaherty  James O'Reilly  David Cochrane  Keith O'Grady  Fiona Fallon  Zoltan Angyal  Professor Antonio Bar Cendón  Michael McCann