Part of The Treaty of Versailles was a crippling "war reparations" Germany was forced to pay following WW1. In Oct 1933 Hitler stop paying those reparations. In my opinion, had Germany NOT been forced to pay war reparations, via the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler might not have ever come to power in the first place. But that is a matter of debate.
Okay. Did ya’ll know that Hitler offered 32+ countries the opportunity to take in Jewish refugees before he had them sent to the concentration camps? It’s a given that no one wanted or in some cases could take on the responsibility for millions of Jews leaving Germany, Poland and other countries but still, the alternative was preventable.
Yes, indeed. You're absolutely correct. A far as I can tell, not one single country, opened it's doors to German's Jews.
He even facilitated their exit from Germany, but did interfere after awhile when so many chose to go to Israel or Palestine as it was then known.
Did ya’ll know, that no new Purple Heart Medals have been struck since WWII ? The number of wounded was vastly over-estimated so every Purple Heart that has been awarded since then is a result of the mistake in calculations.
Perhaps it was possible that the U.S. was still expecting that we would be forced to invade Japan and they anticipated massive casualties ?
I knew, of course, that the U-boats were having a great impact on the UK's imports of food, but until recently, I had no idea how much food was produced by Great Britain's farmers. The goal of the the U-boats was to starve the UK into submission. So important were the farmers that they were exempt from being drafted into the military. As men were called up for service, millions of women took to the fields to replace what had been exclusively a male occupation. If interested, go to google and search for How food was rationed during wartime Great Britain.
And after the war as well Rationing ended in July 1 1954. Do remember as a child going to the sweet shop to buy some sweets(Candy) and not having enough coupons to but a bar of chocolate till the next week
It is often thought that in wartime Germany could produce all of it's own food needs while the UK could not. That's not quite accurate. There is no doubt that Germany could produce more food than the UK, BUT the Nazis systematically took (read stole) foods from conquered countries. Poland lost 25% of it's civilian population during the war. Many of them starved to death.
Dresden a revenge for Coventry? A long but interesting article of the first MASS bombing raid on the UK. in 1940. The Coventry Blitz: 'Hysteria, terror and neurosis' - BBC News
I’m sure you probably remember a member who had quite the prospective on the tribulations faced by England during WWII. There are too many different postings on the subject to link to but her name is @Maisie Walker and can be found by doing a search for her name.
It's difficult to even try to imagine how the people of Britain's cities coped during bombing raids. Even when the war was nearly over, and people began to feel safer, London was bombed again as they were attacked by the German super-sonic V-2 rockets. . It has been said that each V-2 rocket was able to wipe out an entire city block. Unlike the V-1 , (which the Brits called the "doodlebug",) there was no warning. People never saw the V-2 arriving. The V-2 hit the ground before the sound arrived. The V-2 was enormously expensive to build. The German's would have been better off spending on more conventional weapons, like for example the jet propelled ME-262, which was the 1st jet fighter to go into combat during the war.