However, only two Jewish soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor in WWII. More than 35,000 were killed, wounded, captured, or missing. Approximately 600,000 Jews served in the United States armed forces during WWII.The word “Nazi” derives from a Bavarian word that means “simple minded” and was first used as a term of derision by journalist Konrad Heiden (1901-1966). The original abbreviation of the National Socialist Party was Nasos.
The longest battle of WWII was the Battle of the Atlantic, which lasted from 1939-1945.Max Heiliger was the fictitious name the SS used to establish a bank account in which they deposited money, gold, and jewels taken from European Jews.WW II began on Septemwhen Hitler invaded Poland And some scholars suggest WWII is actually a continuation of WWI, with a break in between. Others say it started when Japan invaded Manchuria on September 18, 1931. Most historians agree that WWII began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939.Nearly 2,500 of the 33,000 survivors of Dachau died within six weeks of liberation. In Bergen-Belsen, for example, 13,000 prisoners died after liberation. Even after the Allies arrived, many concentration camp prisoners were beyond help.Russia and the Red Army were accused of several war crimes, including systematic mass rape (over 2 million German women aged 13-70 were allegedly raped by the Red Army) and genocide.Between 19, the Allies dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs, which averaged to 27,700 tons per month.Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.Approximately 1.2 million of them were Jewish and tens of thousands were Gypsies. It is estimated that 1.5 million children died during the Holocaust.For every five German soldiers who died in WWII, four of them died on the Eastern Front.The country with the largest number of WWII causalities was Russia, with over 21 million.
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