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Despite what Hollywood claims in the film U-571, the Germans'
wartime Enigma code machine was actually captured in a British
operation involving HMS Bulldog and HMS Aubretia in May 1941
- six months before the USA joined World War 2. |
When World War II began, the U.S. government declared platinum
as a strategic metal and its use in non-military applications,
including jewelry was disallowed. To appease consumers who
preferred platinum's white luster, gold was substituted in
platinum's absence. |
During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The
U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then
rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material
strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which
was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat
and breaking its back. |
In a poll taken during World War II, Americans rated Jews four
times less favorably than Germans or Japanese (both whom they
were fighting the war against). |
The British Royal family are 100% German in origin; their original
name was the House of Saxe-Coberg-Gothe. At the outbreak of
World War II, they had to 'de-Germanize' themselves for fear
of losing the throne. The name 'Windsor' was substituted, and
was taken from one of the monarch's castles. Queen Elizabeth
II even had a cousin tried, and found guilty, at Nuremburg
for war crimes. |
Before World War II Blacks were not allowed to enlist in the
U.S. Navy. |
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during
World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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