Instead, years of bloody fighting brought independence. xx video By the mid-1960s the British, French, Portugese and Belgian nonsettler colonies in Africa were independent. After World War II and the Holocaust, world sentiment was mostly with Jews desiring a homeland and the major parties claiming Palestine found themselves at a stalemate which erupted into warfare. Nazi Blitzkrieg, Stalemate and the Long Retreat. Concentration camps set up in the 1930s became the death camps of perhaps as many as 12 million people in the 1940s, 6 million of those of the Jewish faith. Western European hegemony came to an end as independence movements in Africa and Asia succeeded in the decades after the war. In Asia, the war spanned the entire Pacific region. By mid-1940 the Germans controlled most of the continent of Europe
