Slovenia - 2025 Peace - The End of the Second World War- set of 5 (MNH)
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2025 International Day of Sport for Development and Peace SS
The end of the Second World War
The Second World War was the biggest military conflict in human history. It ended after six years with the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan. Following Germany’s signing of the unconditional surrender on 8 and 9 May 1945, the last fighting in Europe ended on 15 May. Japan surrendered on 2 September 1945 after the USA dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Sport during the war
On 20 and 21 January 1945, in the midst of the final battles of the Second World War, the only known wartime winter sports competition took place in Cerkno and its immediate surrounding area, the centre of the Partisan-held area of Primorska.
The Partizanski dnevnik newspaper
Partizanski dnevnik was the only daily newspaper of the Slovene national liberation movement. It first appeared in November 1943 as the military bulletin of the Triglav Division of the National Liberation Army (NOV) and the Partisan Detachments of Slovenia (POS), and then from February to May 1944 as the military bulletin of the 9th Corps of the NOV and POS. On 1 June 1944 it became the newspaper of the Liberation Front for Primorska and Gorenjska.
A global organisation to maintain peace and security
Even before the final victory over the Axis powers, the leaders of the wartime coalition of the United Nations had decided to establish an organisation dedicated to maintaining world peace. Having agreed in principle to this in the autumn of 1944, the countries of the wartime coalition signed the organisation’s founding charter at a conference in San Francisco in August 1945, giving it the same name as the wartime coalition established in 1942.