30 WWII Facts They They Do Not Teach You At

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D-Day crossword examples

Leonard Dawe, a crossword compiler for the Telegraph, used a

number of D-Day operation code names as the answers to his
puzzle in the months before D-Day. MI5 interrogated him only to
discover that it was a random coincidence. Historic-UK

Hitler visits the Eiffel Tower (Bundesarchiv)

The lift cables of the Eiffel Tower were cut by the French
Resistance after Germany occupied France in June 1940. As a
result, German soldiers had to climb to the top to fly the swastika
flag. Rarehistoricalphotos

Hiroo Onoda

The last Japanese soldier to surrender, Hiroo Onoda, did so in

1974, 29 years after WII was over. The Guardian

A radio belonging to a British POW was hidden so well that when

the soldier visited the camp 62 years later, he found it right where
he left it. BBC

Close-up of the foliage used to camouflage the superstructure of the ship

A Dutch warship, HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, was covered with

tree branches to disguise it as a tropical island. Wikipedia

Caesar gun of an 88 mm flak battery in action. Up to this picture being taken the
gun had scored eleven hits which can be seen marked on its barrel.

On average it took 16,000 88mm anti-aircraftshells to bring down

a bomber The Guns At Last Light

Pacic Fleet Marines of the Soviet Navy hoisting the Soviet naval ensign in Port
Arthur, on October 1, 1945.

Japan and Russia still havent signed a peace treaty to end WWII
due to a dispute over sovereignty of the Kuril Islands.
Deliveringdata

Sign at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation by British soldiers

Two Polish doctors discovered that the Nazis would not deport
anyone to a concentration camp who tested positive for typhus for
fear that the disease would spread. The two injected Jews and
non-Jews in their city with a vaccine containing Dead Epidemic
Typhus that would test positive but have no adverse effects,
saving approximately 8,000 lives. JewishVirtualLibrary

Pilots of No. 1 Squadron RCAF in Prestwick, Scotland, 30 October 1940.

Canada declared war on Japan before, after the attack on Pearl

Harbor, the US did Publications.GC.ca

German WWII Fanta posters

Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany when the war made it difcult
to bring in Coca-Cola syrup from the US. Snopes

Juan Pujol Garcia, codename Garbo, was a double agent who was
awarded both the German Iron Cross and the Member of the
British Empire award. Badassoftheweek

Signing the treaty of Versailles

After the Treaty of Versailles, Ferdinand Foch said This is not

peace. It is an armistice for 20 years. 20 years and 64 days later

WWII broke out. Wikipedia

WWII Propaganda Poster

To prevent the Germans from nding out that the British had
Airborne Interception Radar onboard ghter aircraft, the British
started a rumor that their pilots had excellent night vision from
eating lots of carrots. This rumor has continued to today as many
people think carrots improve eyesight. Smithsonian mag

Hcha, Hitler and Gring meeting in Berlin, March 1939 (Bundesarchiv)

Emil Hacha, the President of Czechoslovakia, suffered a heart

attack upon hearing of Hitlers plan to bomb the capital.
Wikipedia

Soviet solders after the war

80% of all Soviet males born in 1923 died in World War II.
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