Eight Facts You Never Knew About World War Two
Eight interesting facts about the famed war.
- Hitler was a vegetarian, a non-smoker, and a non-drinker
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Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the Nazi SS, once farmed chickens
- During WWI, Benito Mussolini, an Italian dictator, was opposed to the Central Powers
- British leader Winston Churchill was nearly shot down by his own troops. First, his aircraft went off course and passed dangerously close to enemy anti-aircraft guns (his first encounter with close death in this situation). After that, as the plane went back on course, British radio operators detected his aircraft as an enemy bomber and multiple RAF fighters were sent to intercept and destroy his plane. Luckily, these fighters couldn’t find his plane.
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The Soviets had dogs that were specifically trained to destroy tanks. Explosives were strapped to them and they ran underneath the tank. The explosives were triggered and the tank was destroyed (unfortunately taking the dog with it too). About 25 German tanks were destroyed using this method. Sometimes this plan went wrong, though, seeing as how the dogs were trained using Soviet tanks and they often ran underneath those tanks instead.
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The heaviest tank ever built weighed 192 tons, but wasn’t finished in time to be used for combat
- The 2nd Polish Corps used a brown bear named Wojtek to help transport supplies and ammunition
- The Nazi salute was only used after Hitler’s attempted assassination in July 1944
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Post CommentHaha.
On October 1, 2007 at 6:48 pm
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On October 2, 2007 at 2:13 am
Do you have any sources to support this? In other words, how do we know this is true?
fake
On October 28, 2007 at 10:37 pm
supply sources or its made up
sxdrv
On October 28, 2007 at 11:19 pm
You should watch the films of the nazis in the 1930’s using this salute.
Scaramanga
On October 29, 2007 at 3:51 am
1-3: True
4: Supply Sources
5 & 6: True
7 & 8: Supply Sources
KaosDad
On October 29, 2007 at 8:38 am
#8 is false.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/1933NuremburgRally.jpg[/img]
1933
marc
On October 30, 2007 at 12:22 pm
The Nazi salute was used before 1944 – but only during parades by the citiziens of Germany and the SS-Troops.
In 1944 the army (Wehrmacht) was forced to use it – they didn’t before.
Read it in “Die verdammte Pflicht”, by Alexander Stahlberg.
baboon head
On January 2, 2008 at 10:42 pm
bob 101
On February 6, 2008 at 2:29 pm
hi how are you doing ??? good website to find facts
Um.
On March 28, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Thankss :]
Kevin
On April 29, 2008 at 8:14 am
8 Is false. The salute was always used when German officers met hitler. Hitler also has a phobia of germs and didn’t like shaking hands, hense why he used that salute instead.
6. The tank was never built.. It was designed but not even a prototype was made. I have a copy of the drawings in my room in fact. It mever went beyond design stages.
NONE OF YOUR BUISNESS!!! LOL
On May 19, 2008 at 10:43 pm
i like poooooooooop yes its goood i like poop it taste real good….. uhhh… DIE!!!!!!
The Shermanator
On November 14, 2008 at 5:32 pm
I have a hard time believing number seven. Would be awesome if we could get a source.
Farseer
On December 5, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I know a number of those to be wrong.
sources
On March 18, 2009 at 6:24 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(soldier_bear) – 7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_salute – 8 (although the wording is confusing – it was used, but was not the official military salute.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_of_Adolf_Hitler – 1
http://www.world-war-2.info/trivia/trivia_1.php – 4