1945 by the Western Allies was 1,500,000.[1]<span> April also witnessed the capture of at least 120,000 German troops by the Western Allies in the last campaign of the war in Italy.</span><span> In the three or four months up to the end of April, over 800,000 German soldiers surrendered on the Eastern Front.</span><span>In early April, the first </span>Allied<span>-governed </span>Rheinwiesenlagers<span> were established in western Germany to hold hundreds of thousands of captured or surrendered </span>Axis Forces<span> personnel. </span>Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force<span> (SHAEF) reclassified all prisoners as </span>Disarmed Enemy Forces<span>, not </span>POWs<span> (prisoners of war). The </span>legal fiction<span> circumvented provisions under the </span>Geneva Convention of 1929<span> on the treatment of former combatants.</span><span>By October, thousands had died in the camps from starvation, exposure and disease.</span>
The war between Britain and France was virtually over. King Edward VII visited France in 1903 and won the hearts of the French people by speaking great French and acting graciously everywhere he went. He even gave a famous actress gallant compliments in her native tongue (this kind of thing goes a long way in France). The Anglo-French Entente was ratified in less than a year. The hatred of Edward by Kaiser Wilhelm was another cause (who was his uncle). In truth, the English had already proposed an equivalent entente to Germany in 1899 and 1901, but the Germans had rejected it because they thought it was a ruse. At a dinner with 300 guests in Berlin, the Kaiser made a public statement "He is the devil! You simply cannot comprehend what a Satan he is!" He was irate that he couldn't intimidate or win Edward over, envious of his fame, and worried about what he thought were English designs to "encircle" Germany. But it was for the Belgians, not the French, that Britain allied with France in World War I. Britain had committed to defend Belgium in return for its Continent-wide neutrality. The British intervened to defend them when Germany invaded Belgium without cause (Belgium had done nothing to deserve it) and started massacring civilians.
<span>The majority of Shang Dynasty writing was done of bamboo. The correct answer is the final option. The people wrote on bamboo because other materials for writing hadn't yet been discovered. It took a while until papyrus, let alone paper was discovered for writing purposes. Although paper was indeed discovered in China, it didn't happen until 25 AD, by Cai Lun. </span>
