And nobody wished that the other side would win. Well, the crucial factor would have been that in World War II "the other side" were the aggressors.

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I can remember my mother picking me up from school, and telling me the war was ending, and I was running up and down the street cheering. I didn't understand too much abouit it, but the big thing was that it was all right for me to go running up and down the street cheering, without anyone telling me off, and that was pretty good fun.

I seem to remmeber I was a bit confused between Germs and Germans. They were both liable to kill you if you weren't careful.