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By Tony O’ Connor
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World War II started when Germany invaded
Poland on the 1st of September 1939 and ended
on the 2nd of September 1945, with the official
surrender of the last Axis nation, Japan.
World War II was the most widespread war in
history.
The Nazis were led by Adolf Hitler, who was
also known as the Fuhrer.
The Allies were made up of Great Britain,
France, The Soviet Union, The United States,
China, Poland, Australia, Canada, New
Zealand, South Africa and many more.
From left tom right: Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
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Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889.
Hitler was baptised a Catholic.
Hitler’s father was a mid-level customs official
and died of pleural haemorrhage
in 1903.
Hitler quit school when he was 16.
In 1906 Hitler was given
permission to visit Vienna, Austria but
couldn’t get into the art school he wanted.
The Axis were made up of Germany, Italy,
Japan, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary and
Romania.
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The Gestapo were German secret police.
The organisation was created in 1933 and
lasted until 1945.
The Gestapo were infamously known for
brutally interrogating and torturing event their
own people especially if they found out
someone was a Jew.
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80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t
survive WWII.
Many Jews were subjects to gruesome human
experiments, doctors would break bones
repeatedly to see how many times they could
do it before the bone would not heal.
The Swastika was the symbol of the Nazis.
Russia had around 21 million casualties during
the war.
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After the war, millions of people were left
homeless.
Germany were forced to give back all the land
they gained during the war.
To prevent any more wars, there were many
new peace treaties put in place.
Most of the Axis nations were forced to pay
massive sums of money for all the destruction
and death caused.