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1st fact
• The earliest use of the Phrase final solution to the hewish problem was actually used in an 1899 memo to Russian Tzar Nicholas about Zionism -
2nd fact
• Despite the risks thousand of people helped save the jews for example the country of Denmark saved its entire community and individuals such as Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947) Oscar Schindler (1908-1974) and Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986) -
3rd fact
• After its defeat in WW1 Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, most Germans opposed the treaty and their resentment would eventually undo the settlement leading to WW2 -
4th fact
• In his book the abandonment of the Jews David Wyman (1929-) argued that the failure to bomb concentration camps was a result of the allies indifference to the fate of the jews rather than the practical impossibility of the operation -
5th fact
• In the 1930s the U.S. Army had only about 130,000 soldiers making it the sixteenth largest force in the world smaller than Czechoslovakia, Poland, Turkey, Spain, and Romania -
6th fact
• Others say WW2 started when japan invaded Manchuria on September 18, 1931 -
7th fact
• In 1935 British engineer Robert Watson watt was working on a death ray that would destroy enemy aircraft using radio waves his death ray instead evolved into radar -
8th fact
• In the 1928 elections less than 3% of Germans voted for the Nazi party, In 1938, hitler was time magazines man of the year -
9th fact
• In 1939 the Nazis began a euthanasia program in which 80000 to 100,000 Germans who were disabled, mentally retarded, or insane were murdered -
10 fact
• Most historians agree that WW2 began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 -
11 fact
• In 1941 a private earned $21 a month in 1942 a private earned $50 a month -
12 fact
• On July 14, 1941 the Soviets introduced a new weapon the Katyusha which could fire 320 rockets in 25 seconds more than 50 years later the katyusha remains an effective weapon -
13 fact
• On December 8, 1941, Britain and the U.S. declared war on Japan on December 11 Germany declared war on the U.S. -
14 fact
• The decision to implement the final solution or die endlosung was made at the wan see conference in berlin on January 20, 1942 -
15 fact
• Many historians believe that the battle at Stalingrad (1942-1943) with 800,000-1,600,000 -
16 fact
• The greatest tank battle in history occurred between the Germans and Russians at the Kursk salient in Russia from July 4-22, 1943 more than 3,600 tanks were involved -
17th fact
• The Japanese Kamikaze tactic was suggested on October 19, 1944 by Vice Admiral Onishi in an attempt to balance the technological advantage of invading American forces -
18th fact
• On January 31, 1945 private Eddie Slovik was shot for desertion the first American executed for the crime since the civil war -
19th fact
• Anne Frank and her sister died at Bergen Belsen in march 1945 one month before the vamp was liberated in april 1945 -
20th fact
• Joseph Kramer (1945) a commander of Bergen belsen was known as the beast of belsen when asked if he felt anything as he watched and participated in the deaths of thousand of men and women and children and Kramer said he didn’t feel anything because he was following orders -
20th fact
From 1940-1945 the U.S. defense budget increased from $1.9 billion to $59.8 billion -
21st fact
• The longest battle of WW2 was the battle of the Atlantic which lasted from 1939-1945 -
22nd fact
• The Nazis called there rule the Third Reich (1933-1945) the first Reich was the holt roman empire the second reich was the German empire of 1871-1918 and the Weimar Republic was from 1919-1933 -
24th fact
• The word Nazi derives from a barbarian word that means simple minded and was first used as a term of derision by journalist Kanrad Heiden (1901-1966) -
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23rd fact
• WW2 ended on September 2, 1945 when japan signed a surrender agreement on the USS Missouri in Tokyo bay