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Questions related to aspects of World War II (1939-1945 AD). An international conflict whose major participants were the fascist countries of Germany, Italy, and Japan engaged against the allied nations of the UK, France, China, the USSR, and the USA. The conflict began with the German invasion of Poland and formally ended with the American victory over Japan.
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Is it true that the soldiers returned from WW2 either didn't marry or kept themselves from f...
Not all obviously. The world is full of children and grandchildren of WWII vets (most famously perhaps the current President of the USA, who often talks about his Grandfather serving in Patton's Army …
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Were there any successful attempts by the Allies to "turn" groups of Axis soldiers?
It appears that this happened with two units of the 30th Waffen Genadier Division of the SS. This division was recruited in Warsaw and was mostly peopled with various stripes of Slavs who happened to …
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What is the best method/ readings to learn WWII
For me I had lots of trouble with WWII (and in fact most wars), due to the way history tends to be taught as a jumbled set of disjointed facts and incidents, rather than a coherent story.
So for me a …
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Did Germany lose World War II when/because "kill ratios" started moving "against" her?
The only time "kill ratios" really matter all that much is when using attrition warfare.
While important in World War I, to the best of my knowledge, this strategy was never employed in a large scale …
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In WWII, what was behind the very early decision to accept nothing but unconditional surrend...
Churchill went over this a bit in his autobiography of the war. The idea was Roosevelt's, and it harkens back to the US Civil War and the Battle of Ft. Donaldson. General U.S. Grant used the phrase wh …
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How was occupied France governed during World War II?
After French forces surrendered to German forces, they set up a new demi-Fascist government under one of the more reactionary French generals, known today as Vichy France.
Vichy France had full autho …
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Tito's partisans loyalty
After reading up on the Chetnicks during WWII. Wow, they were a nasty piece of work.
So lets look at the two groups here. On the one hand we have Tito's partisans. They are communist, one of the popu …
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Have historians envisioned how World II would have developed without Churchill as Prime Mini...
This isn't something historians typically do; there's far too much speculation involved.
The people who address questions like this are Alternate History writers. There are far too many titles in thi …
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What is the equivalent buying power of one 1945 Reichsmark in 2016 Euros?
That's actually a more complicated question than it may seem. During WWII the Nazi government instituted price controls on things like bread, and the occupying UN powers didn't lift those controls unt …
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Churchill: What brave men of Barcelona?
I was rereading Winston Churchill's "Their Finest Hour" speech, and came across this passage in reference to the threat from bombing attacks:
I do not at all underrate the severity of the ordeal w …
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Were there any "retaliation" anti-tank weapons widely used by infantry in World War II?
In Saving Private Ryan, Hanks' Lieutenant character has his squad improvise a "sticky bomb", which he claims is "in the field manual". It involved a sock, explosives, and grease to make it stick.1
Th …
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Were fighters used as a carrier group defense tactic?
For the Japanese, fighter-based counter air patrol (CAP) was in fact their force's primary defense against enemy air attack.
Until just after Midway, the Japanese didn't have radar equipped on their …
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WWII: What navy controlled the Mediterranean during the North African Campaign?
The British Navy by-and-large had control of the Mediterranean. However, there were some caveats.
The successful German invasions of Greece and Crete showed that land-based command of the air trumpe …
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Did war bonds have better investment alternatives during WWII?
In investing, its all about risk vs. reward. For that reason there's generally no such thing as the "best" investment. Different people have different investment goals.
US Savings bonds specifically …
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Which German cities does this article in The Economist allege that Britain destroyed?
There was in fact a general Anglo-American bombing campaign against German cities late in the war which we (or at least I) don't often hear about. However, it was carried out within the Geneva Convent …
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