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Germany's surrender in World War II was commemorated on May 9 in many places throughout the world. That same day, thousands of neo-Nazis held "mourning marches" over the "day of disaster." In their own country and especially outside it they are a shunned minority. The vast majority view that period as a time of spiritual degeneration when their leaders, scholars and military commanders were gripped in an insanity that resulted in genocide, campaigns of conquest and the defeat of many nations. These are the lessons that most Germans, and most of the nations who collaborated with them, have learned from the "day of disaster."