An enigma indeed.
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.
Not to be found in the standard ration book.
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.
Curiosity killed the... er, U-Boat.
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.
That's opinion polls for you.
In a poll taken during World War II, Americans rated Jews four times
less favorably than Germans or Japanese (both who we were fighting the
war against).
Our esteemed leaders
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.
A downside of equality, perhaps?
Before World War II Blacks were not allowed to enlist in the U.S. Navy.
Casualties of War.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. |
