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Welcome to the Museum of WW2
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Angelina,
Ryan,
Gabby
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Angelina likes to play volleyball and likes to long
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Ryan likes to weight lift and skate board.
Gabby likes to ride horses and get things pierced
And we all like to party.
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Propaganda
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Weapons
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When you think of the weapons of WWII, what comes to mind? Planes,
tanks, money? Bullets, machine-guns, and grenade launchers? Yes, all
of these were important tools in the effort to win the war. But so was
information. In this case, government issued information. Over the
course of the war the U.S. government waged a constant battle for the
hearts and minds of the public. Persuading Americans to support the
war effort became a wartime industry, just as important as producing
bullets and planes. The U.S. government produced posters, pamphlets,
newsreels, radio shows, and movies-all designed to create a public that
was 100% behind the war effort.
http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/forstudents/ww2-history/take-a-closer-look/war-bonds-propagandaposters.html
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World War 2 was the deadliest conflict to occur in human history resulting in between
50 to 70 million fatalities world-wide. It was the most widespread war to occur in
human history with having more than 100 million people serve in military units and
was conducted in a state of total war amongst the participating countries.
http://www.worldwar2facts.org/when-did-world-war-2-end.html
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On September 16, 1940, the United States instituted
the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which
required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to
register for the draft. This was the first peacetime draft
in United States' history. Those who were selected
from the draft lottery were required to serve at least
one year in the armed forces. Once the U.S. entered
WWII, draft terms extended through the duration of the
fighting. By the end of the war in 1945, 50 million men
between eighteen and forty-five had registered for the
draft and 10 million had been inducted in the military.
http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/forstudents/ww2-history/take-a-closer-look/draft-registrationdocuments.html
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Women took on many roles in the Revolutionary War. Some of these roles
were traditional while others were unconventional and even scandalous for
the time. From supportive jobs like nurses, cooks and maids to more direct
roles such as secret soldiers and spies, women did more than their share to
help win America’s independence.
http://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-roles-of-women-in-therevolutionary-war/
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Together with its many satellite camps,
Buchenwald was one of the largest
concentration camps established within the
old German borders of 1937. The camp
was constructed in 1937 in a wooded area
on the northern slopes of the Ettersberg,
about five miles northwest of Weimar in
east-central Germany. Before the Nazi
takeover of power, Weimar was best
known as the home of leading literary
figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a
product of German liberal tradition in the
eighteenth and early
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Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold
Polish political prisoners, who began to
arrive in May 1940. The first
extermination of prisoners took place in
September 1941, and Auschwitz II–
Birkenau went on to become a major site
of the Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish
question".
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Established in March 1933, the Dachau
concentration camp was the first regular
concentration camp established by the
Nazis in Germany. The camp was located
on the grounds of an abandoned munitions
factory near the medieval town of Dachau,
about 10 miles northwest of Munich in the
state of Bavaria, which is located in
southern Germany. Heinrich Himmler, in
his capacity as police president of Munich,
officially described the camp as “the first
concentration camp for political
prisoners.”
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The Belzec death camp was located in the
southeastern part of the Lublin District, near Belzec, a
small village on the Lublin - Lviv railway line. In early
1940 the Germans set up a number of labor camps in
the Belzec district, housing workers building the
"Otto-Line", a series of fortifications on the border
with the Soviet Union. These Jewish labour camps
were disbanded in October 1940.
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mK
The Mk. II used the M5, M6, and M10 series
fuses. These early fuses made a loud "bang"
and produced sparks when activated. They had
other problems as well. The M10-series'
powder train made a "hissing" sound as it
burned, potentially alerting the enemy of its
presence. The M5 and M6 series sometimes
prematurely detonated when the flash from the
primer hit the TNT charge rather than the delay
fuse. Moisture could get in under the foil fuse
cap, causing the weapon to fail to detonate.
Improved smokeless and (almost) silent fuses
(like the M204-series) were later fitted after
World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk_2_gre
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Gun Shell
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US 200-pounder Parrott Shell Long Pattern.
This has been collected by someone who
collects them his name is Jack W. Melton. He
has been an active collector for the war
artifacts and this is one he found.
http://www.relicsofwar.com/
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Egg grenade
The Model 39 (Eierhandgranate, "egg hand
grenade") was a German hand grenade
introduced in 1939 and produced until the end
of World War II. The Eihandgranate used the
same fuse assembly (the BZE 39) as the
Model 43 Stielhandgranate ("Stick Grenade"),
which was screwed into the top of the sheetmetal body. To activate, the domed cap was
unscrewed, and the pull-cord that had been
coiled inside it was tugged sharply igniting a
friction fuze before throwing at the target.
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The Bar
The BAR was designed to be carried by
advancing infantrymen, slung over the shoulder
or fired from the hip, a concept called "walking
fire"—thought to be necessary for the individual
soldier during trench warfare. However, in
practice, it was most often used as a light
machine gun and fired from a bipod (introduced
in later models).A variant of the original M1918
BAR, the Colt Monitor Machine Rifle, remains
the lightest production automatic gun to fire the
.30-06 Springfield cartridge, though the limited
capacity of its standard 20-round magazine
tended to hamper its utility in that role.
http://www.ww2museum.eu/germanm
achineguns.html
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi
Germany from 1934 to 1945. He initiated
World War II and oversaw fascist policies
that resulted in millions of deaths.
http://www.biography.com/people/adolf-hitler-9340144
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Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was the
Reich Leader (Reichsführer) of the
dreaded SS of the Nazi party from 1929
until 1945. Himmler presided over a vast
ideological and bureaucratic empire that
defined him for many—both inside and
outside the Third Reich—as the second
most powerful man in Germany during
World War II. Given overall responsibility
for the security of the Nazi empire,
Himmler was the key and senior Nazi
official responsible for conceiving and
overseeing implementation of the so-called
Final Solution, the Nazi plan to murder the
Jews of Europe.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007407
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Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain was the British prime
minister as England entered World War II.
He is known for his policy of
"appeasement" toward Adolf Hitler's Nazi
Germany.
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Josef Mengele
officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration
camp during World War II. He was notorious for
the selection of victims to be killed in the gas
chambers and for performing unscientific and
often deadly human experiments on prisoners.
After the war, he fled to South America, where
he evaded capture for the rest of his life.
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WW2
Coming just two decades after the last great
global conflict, the Second World War was the
most widespread and deadliest war in history,
involving more than 30 countries and resulting
in more than 50 million military and civilian
deaths (with some estimates as high as 85
million dead). Sparked by Adolf Hitler’s
invasion of Poland in 1939, the war would drag
on for six deadly years until the final Allied
defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in
1945.
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