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100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by bluedefender: 7:57pm On Jun 18, 2022
1) During World War II, President Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to deny the holocaust ever happened, and therefore ordered people to take as many photographs of the Nazi crimes as possible in order to avoid such attempts. -

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Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by bluedefender: 8:00pm On Jun 18, 2022
2) In WW2, the Nazis had a wooden airfield in Northern France and the British knew about it.

Britain let them build it and when it was finished they dropped a wooden bomb on it.

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Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by bluedefender: 8:06pm On Jun 18, 2022
3) In 1945, during WW2, nine crewmen survived when their warplane crashed.

Eight were captured by the Japanese and eaten.

One survived because he was picked up by a passing submarine.

That survivor was George H.W. Bush.

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Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by bluedefender: 8:10pm On Jun 18, 2022
4) After World War II, Denmark declined an offer of $100,000,000 from the United States to buy Greenland

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Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by bluedefender: 8:13pm On Jun 18, 2022
5) Between the announcement of Germany’s surrender during WW2 on the radio to Joseph Stalin addressing of the nation 22 hours later, Russia literally ran out of vodka.

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Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by bluedefender: 8:16pm On Jun 18, 2022
6) In the Battle of Hurtgen Forest during WW2, the forest was so dense and dark.

It was very hard to navigate that the German and Allied medics shared an aid station in the only building either could easily find.

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Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by bluedefender: 8:20pm On Jun 18, 2022
7) During WW2, Winston Churchill required a pressurized chamber known as the Life Pod to fly due to his health.

It included a phone, an ashtray, and an air circulation system so that he could smoke

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Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by bluedefender: 8:23pm On Jun 18, 2022
8. ) World War II broke out before the VW Beetle could go into production, so the Germans used Volkswagen parts to produce the Volkswagen Kübelwagen and the “Schwimmwagen” instead.

The Schwimmwagen was basically an amphibious military version of the Beetle, and over 14,000 of them fought in WW2.

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Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by ChangedMan1999(m): 8:32pm On Jun 18, 2022
Nice one
Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by oliverjiad(m): 8:53pm On Jun 18, 2022
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Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by Betscoreodds: 8:18am On Jun 20, 2022
This is nonsense if you don't mention Russia won the second world War.
Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by panafrican(m): 8:43am On Jun 20, 2022
bluedefender:
1) During World War II, President Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to deny the holocaust ever happened, and therefore ordered people to take as many photographs of the Nazi crimes as possible in order to avoid such attempts. -
1.Still he kept the US army segregated, black not being allowed into the same barracks with White.
It took Truman to stop that.

2. A Black guy whom President De Gaulle paid a visit to when on a presidential trip to the US was found dead later.
That Black guy born in the USA was a hero of the France resistance in France during the fight against the Germans.
He was civilians who was a barman or a something in France when the war WW2 broke up.
After the wear he moved back to the U.S. . When Gaulle traveled there he asked about that Black guy and found him, then went to his house. The man became famous . This was under F.D.R.
Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by panafrican(m): 8:45am On Jun 20, 2022
bluedefender:
7) During WW2, Winston Churchill required a pressurized chamber known as the Life Pod to fly due to his health.

It included a phone, an ashtray, and an air circulation system so that he could smoke

Churchill was a racist, a war criminal who took pride in having shot dead an African ( a sudanense ) when he ( Churchill)
was on military duty in Sudan during British colonization.
Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by panafrican(m): 8:51am On Jun 20, 2022
You forgot the heroic fight of Russian men, women and children in Stalingrad, street per street, house by house,
come on. This was the most remarkable feat of arms of WW2. Von Paulus was taught a lesson.

27 million Soviet Union citizens died in that war on the Russian front. Only a westerner can ignore that.
Re: 100 Interesting Facts About WWII You Didn’t Know by panafrican(m): 8:51am On Jun 20, 2022
Betscoreodds:
This is nonsense if you don't mention Russia won the second world War.
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