The Blind Young Man declared: 'Another great war will come between all the peoples of the earth. Germany will become a great heap of rubble, and only the areas of the blue stones will be spared. The great war will end when the cherries bloom.' This was fulfilled with WW2: Germany was reduced to rubble by Allied bombing and the Red Army advance. The 'blue stones' regions (interpreted as Saxon/Bavarian areas with specific geology) were less affected. WW1 ended November 11, 1918 (not cherry blossom), but the final surrender in WW2 Europe came May 8, 1945 — not cherry blossom either, though springtime in Central Europe.