1. A good illustration of the hysteria about the equal responsibility of the USSR and Germany for WWII. But the independence of Austria was guaranteed by the League of Nations and directly by England and France under the Stresa Agreements. And so they merge Austria with Germany, strengthening it and pushing it to further aggressive actions.
Well done, Mexico!
2. Well, only the author of the post did not know about this Japanese.
3. yeah, 80 percent. Don't you want 96?
4. Is this a fact about the war or about the service record of citizen Elizabeth?
5. Well, all non-Jews know about this too.
6. All Jews definitely forgot about this.
7. Really, few people know about this. Because the “defense of Wizna” as it is presented in today’s Poland is a propaganda crab.
And the real defense lasted only a little over a day (from the morning of September 9 to noon of the 10th) - the order to expand the breakthrough zone east of Lomza was transmitted only on the morning of September 9th.
And in reality, the defenders of Vizna did not fight with the entire 19th Army Corps of Guderian (two of its three divisions - the 3rd Panzer and the 20th Motorized) passed completely to the side - and they began to advance on the morning of the 10th.
And the advancing units - two motorized infantry battalions of the 10th Tank and a battalion of the Letzen brigade - were essentially newly formed units, and also understaffed, which especially affected artillery support. The Germans' system against pillboxes was downright wretched - only a division of light 105-mm howitzers (according to the staff of a tank division, an artillery regiment of three divisions of such howitzers was required).
Well, and finally, by the evening of September 10, all three divisions of Guderian’s corus had advanced 30-35 kilometers from the Vizna line, i.e. the real delay was no more than a day (and even then it was most likely due to the need to force the Narev)
8. Yeah. Authors!, don’t project your ignorance of basic history onto your audience, please!
9. This is also not the first news about this lucky guy.
10. This is the most important thing you need to know about World War II. What self-sacrifice! Accept the plaster Oscar! Maybe the authors can also name a couple of names of plaster Oscar winners? Without looking at Wiki?
11. At the same time, Germany had its own night vision devices. So if the British conspirators misled anyone, it was their gullible population.
12. Well, this is certainly interesting, but after reading the abstract of the book “The Mystery of Japanese Power,” I am not surprised by this. After it is stated there that Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese fleet without special coordination with the government and other emperors... This is a fact about World War II - all the facts are a fact, and I give my hand to cutting off, the authors have not heard of it.
13. Well, that’s what everyone was buzzing about. How many Slavic children were killed? Gypsy? It’s not at all clear what the Second World War has to do with it, if only Jews were killed.
14. What, finally, the beginning of the Second World War was postponed to the moment the ultimatum was issued by Germany and its friends - England, France, Poland - to the Czechoslovak Republic? And then it’s all “the first of September, the first of September...”
15. see last sentence of paragraph 13
16. Well, at least someone in Western Europe resisted Hitler...
They surrendered the country, the capital, they surrendered the notorious Jews, but the elevator to the tower was broken. What a national disgrace it would be if he took the elevator above Paris. Now, if on foot... Maybe they also shot some heroic mechanic there?
17. Who would doubt that the Pindos first throw their satellites into hell.
Much has been said and written about one of the bloodiest wars of the last century. In a series of diverse events, there was a place for feat, courage, heroism, hard work and boundless faith in victory. The courage of the multinational people of the USSR and the desperate desire to end fascism made it possible on May 2, 1945 Soviet soldiers erect a victory banner on the Brandenburg Gate. In the series of events of the war years, numerous no less Interesting Facts about World War II, which fall into the category of little or no unknown. Interesting facts about the Great Patriotic War Patriotic War).
There will be a holiday, but...
There was an official order to make every effort to ensure that people would forget about the war and focus on the active restoration of the country.
The well-known Victory Parade, which became the first after the end of the bloodshed, took place in Moscow at the end of June of the victorious year.
The celebration of the country's main holiday, Victory Day, has been canceled since 1948, and May 9 was a regular working day.
The first extensive celebrations of the great day were organized in 1965, after which it was declared a holiday.
Death toll approximate
Only in the late 1980s did efforts to clarify the number of deaths intensify.
Information about the number of deaths varies. According to reliable, but very vague information, the number of Soviet citizens who died at the front and in the rear from the beginning of World War II until its end is 43 million people.
During the period 1941-45, more than 26 million people died.
The total number of Wehrmacht losses for the entire period of hostilities does not exceed 8 million.
The number of citizens who died in captivity and went into exile exceeds 1.8 million.
The total number of Soviet children deported to Germany remains unknown. The approximate number of those returned to their homeland is also unknown, but it is no more than 3% of the total number of abducted children.
The siege of Leningrad is one of many terrible and heroic moments in the history of the Soviet people. Everyone knows that the city is not located on an island. However, this did not help its residents and defenders escape the difficult conditions of the blockade. The duration of the siege, which involved the armies of Germany, Finland, Italy and Spain, was 872 days.
Daily bread quota in besieged Leningrad
According to official data, at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the population of the USSR was 194 million people. After its completion, only 127 million remained.
Women's military labor
Both men and women participated in the war of 1941.
For valor and courage, 80 thousand representatives of the fair sex were awarded officer ranks.
The number of women who participated in military operations on the fronts of the Second World War ranges from 600 thousand to 1 million.
Traditional for this war period was the creation of diverse women's formations (flight, rifle, naval, etc.) and volunteer brigades.
To become a sniper and get to the front, women underwent special training at the central sniper school.
87 representatives of the fairer sex were awarded the title of “Hero” Soviet Union».
Feats of the labor front
Over 130 types of weapons were created by defense enterprises for the front.
For the first Soviet mobile multiple launch rocket system, the Katyusha, shells were produced at factories operating in Baku.
30 thousand rubles. - the contribution of a 90-year-old collective farmer, which became an impressive part of the funds used to form tank columns and aviation squadrons.
In the list of interesting factors about the Second World War, it is worth noting the volume of personal savings of citizens devoted to meeting the military needs of the country, which can be expressed in meager figures:
- gold – 15 kg;
- silver – 952 kg;
- cash – 320 million rubles.
There is a place for heroism
The feat of Alexander Matrosov was not the only one: over four hundred similar cases were recorded in documents of the war years.
It is known for certain that the first hero of the Great Patriotic War, who covered an enemy machine gun with his own body on August 24, 1941, was political instructor and tankman Alexander Pankratov. His example inspired another 58 Soviet soldiers to perform a similar feat.
Specially trained animals also performed feats. For example, dogs were trained and became tank destroyers, signalmen, orderlies, and sappers. Thanks to our four-legged friends, we managed to neutralize over three hundred pieces of equipment and over 4 million enemy landmines and mines, receive 200 thousand important dispatches, remove about 700 thousand soldiers from combat positions, and clear over 3 hundred large settlements.
About the awards
“For the Capture of Berlin” is a medal awarded to approximately 1.1 million Soviet soldiers.
Almost every person who participated in the hostilities was worthy of awards. However, the awards were issued in insufficient quantities, which did not allow all the heroes to be recognized in a timely manner. Only with the beginning of peaceful everyday life did the personnel department organize activities to search for awardees.
Detection of enemy aircraft
One million is the number of awards returned to their rightful owners by the end of 1956. To receive an order or medal, citizens had to personally contact the relevant authorities.
A huge number of awards remained unclaimed: often veterans simply did not live to see the solemn and long-awaited moment.
The feat of the war correspondents was highly appreciated, as evidenced by numerous orders and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Something that cannot be ignored
To prevent the Kremlin from being damaged by bombing, it was decided to disguise the buildings as city blocks and install plywood decorations in the squares.
The difficult situation of the war years did not prevent the restoration of the Church and the Patriarchate from being completed by 1943. IN post-war country A council for the affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church was created.
The P.08 pistol, designed by Georg Luger, was recognized as unique and was produced by hand in single copies.
For German tank crews and pilots, methamphetamine was officially added to their food rations.
On the territory of Ukraine, the invaders burned down 334 settlements along with their residents.
Koryukovka, a city in the Chernihiv region, became famous thanks to the atrocities of the invaders: in 2 days, the invaders burned 1290 buildings and took the lives of 7 thousand civilians.
Mid-autumn 1941 for the hero city of Odessa was marked by the death of 50 thousand Jews. The massacre was carried out by soldiers of the Romanian troops who acted on the side of Nazi Germany.
Hitler's personal enemy, according to him, was the announcer Yu. Levitan, for whose death a fabulous reward of 250 thousand marks was assigned. The announcer was constantly under guard.
The well-known fact of signing the act of surrender of Germany did not at all mean the establishment of peace between the two states. The decision to “formally” end the feud was made by the Presidium Supreme Council at the end of January 1955.
This is by no means all the interesting facts about the Great Patriotic War. Much remains to be learned from the archives. It is a pity that eyewitnesses of those distant events will no longer have to confirm the authenticity of the facts.
War is a tragic event and a loss for both sides fighting each other. The Second World War undoubtedly left its mark on many countries and claimed millions of lives. Many films have been made and books have been written about this war. But there is interesting facts about World War II, which are not mentioned in history books.
- German soldiers set hidden traps with mines, they did it behind works of art. But they did it so ineptly and crookedly that it was immediately noticeable. And such traps were quickly noticed and neutralized.
- The swastika, which was an integral attribute of the Germans, turns out to have its origins in ancient civilizations; it was a religious symbol, and was a symbol of fertility and good luck in many ancient cultures.
- During World War II, 40 thousand people served on submarines, only 10 thousand soldiers returned alive.
- Most Jews and Gypsies were subjected to terrible torture and experiments. Doctors broke their bones several times to understand how long they could do this until the bone came out. They hit the head with a hammer to see how strong the skull was. Drugs and infections were introduced into the body. One professor used 3 thousand twins for his experiments, of which only 200 survived. The doctor removed their eyeballs and changed their eye color with dyes. One time he sewed two twins together. This is only a small part of all the cruelty that happened.
- When the Germans captured Paris, Hitler never managed to get to Eiffel Tower
, the French deliberately damaged the elevator so that they could not use it, and the Fuhrer did not want to go up on foot.
- Evgeny Lozovsky and his colleague were able to save 8 thousand Jews during the Holocaust. They showed cunning and created a typhus epidemic. And the German soldiers simply could not enter the city, for fear of becoming infected.
- Hitler wanted to capture all of Moscow, then completely kill all the inhabitants. And in place of the city, make a one-piece reservoir.
- The Japanese made 9 thousand airships during the war. These ships were made of paper and silk. The purpose of such balloons was to deliver incendiary bombs to the United States. Approximately 1 thousand balloons reached Michigan. As a result, six Americans died. These were peaceful people, a pregnant woman and five children, they were just relaxing on a picnic.
- During the war, spacesuits for children were invented to protect small children from gas attacks.. By using special device the children were pumped with air.
- The Second World War is the largest in scale. It lasted 6 years, 61 states took part in it, at that time there were 73 in total. 80% of the world's population took part in the war in one way or another.
- Many years have passed since the end of the war, but Russia and Japan did not conclude a peace treaty at the end of the war. They had a conflict over territory that they could not divide. It turns out that formally the war continued between Japan and Russia.
- At the end of the war, Jewish mercenary groups appeared. They sought out those who had hurt and harmed the Jews during the war, and brutally executed those they found. Most of all they wanted revenge.
- For the first time in history, approximately 600 thousand women fought at the front.. Three regiments were created. 46 Guards night bomber, it was also called the night witches. 586 fighter regiment, and 125 guards bomber regiment. Female snipers were trained, and there was a female company of sailors. 87 women received the title of hero.
- The first German soldier to be killed was killed by the Japanese. The first American to die was killed by a Russian soldier.
- The war with Germany caused huge losses and resolutions. 27 million people died in the Soviet Union. 18 million soldiers were seriously injured or ill, most of them disabled. 6 million people were captured, 4 million of them died. Due to such a significant population decline, there is little working population left in the country. Every Soviet family had a loss. The war left behind many orphans, disabled people and widows.
1. During World War II, the Taj Mahal was covered with a huge canopy to make it look like a bamboo reserve. In this way, any Japanese bomber pilot could be misled. In 1971, it was again camouflaged during the Indo-Pakistan War.
2. After World War II, Jewish mercenary groups nicknamed “Nokmim” appeared who sought out those who terrorized Jews or their families during the war and meticulously executed them.
3. The Red Army (USSR) defeated 75-80% of German troops during World War II. US forces destroyed only 20-25%.
4. During World War II, there was a secret American program to disguise plastic explosives as flour. This was such a disguise that even baked goods could be made from this “flour”, which could later be used to make explosives.
5. A U.S. Army private during the Italian campaign single-handedly forced the surrender of four machine gunners and captured 10 Italian prisoners of war. He was stripped of his medal simply because he is a combat private in the US Army.
6. During World War II, the official gesture that accompanied the Pledge of Allegiance in the United States was similar to the Nazi salute (Hitler). Therefore, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered it to be changed and put his hand on his heart.
7. During World War II, US Army Lt. Robert Clingman used the propeller of his F4U Corsair (a single-seat carrier-based fighter) to destroy an enemy reconnaissance aircraft. His weapon jammed, but he tried air ram, went into the tail of the enemy and with the propeller of his plane disrupted the control of the enemy plane, as a result of which it crashed. Robert Clingman returned to base and was awarded the Navy Cross.
8. There is an account where events that occurred during the Second World War are posted, which correspond in date and time in real time (only with a difference of 70 years).
9. The "Night Witches" were members of the Russian Women's Bomber Aviation Regiment. These pilots turned off their engines to avoid being heard as they approached, glided across the sky and bombed German targets. The “Night Witches” dropped 3,000 tons of bombs on German positions and constantly evaded enemy aircraft, as a result of which the German command had no choice but to promise the German pilots the “Iron Cross” for the destruction of at least one aircraft from the “Night Witches”.
10. The prototype for creating the plot of the battle near the “Death Star” from the cult film “ star Wars" served as a combat operation for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
11. During World War II, three bombs hit the same church in Malta. Two of them simply bounced to the side and did not explode. The latter pierced the roof of the church, fell among the people who had taken refuge during the raid, but never exploded.
12. The common bear was included in the ranks of the Polish Army as a private soldier during World War II and, ultimately, its presence played an important role in the Battle of Monte Cassino.
13. finished paying my debts for the Second World War only in 2006.
14. declared neutrality during World War II and therefore thousands of people invested their hard-earned money in banks. When depositors passed away, relatives were deprived of any access to their money, and banks continued to receive interest on the invested funds.
15. During World War II, Italy issued an ultimatum demanding acceptance of the Italian occupation. The Greeks replied “then it’s war.” In the ensuing battle, the unarmed Greeks steadfastly held the line against the Italian troops, thereby forcing Germany to intervene, diverting resources from the upcoming invasion of the USSR.
16. During World War II, the Manhattan Project used the code name “copper” for the element plutonium.
17. During World War II, Canadian soldier Leo Major, alone, captured about 93 Nazis in the Netherlands. He also later single-handedly captured the city of Zwolle, also in the Netherlands, to escape the Germans. He was blind to everything.
18. Total losses The United States, Great Britain and France during World War II together roughly equaled the losses of the Soviet Union in the decisive battle of Leningrad. All in all, Soviet losses 26 times more compared to the losses of other allies.
19. Fritz Haber, a German chemist, created a process for producing fertilizers that today produce about half of the world's food. He also created chlorine gas. After his death, chlorine gas was used in gas chambers and pesticides were used to fertilize the soil.
20. Lauri Terni was a soldier who fought under three flags: Finnish, German (when he fought the Soviets in World War II), and American (where he was known as Larry Thorne) when he served in the US Army as a special forces soldier in the war.
21. During World War II, Great Britain shipped most of its stocks and foreign securities in boxes labeled “fish.” They were stored for years in an office building in downtown Montreal where some 5,000 people worked throughout the war with no idea what was hidden in their basement.
22. The US bombed Tokyo repeatedly during World War II, causing more than 100,000 casualties, more than the total number of casualties in and combined.
23. There is a separate cemetery in France for American soldiers who were executed for rape or murder during World War II.
24.The United States produced only 139 automobiles during World War II because all factories were using production capacity and supplies for the army.
In fact, all Soviet historiography about the war of 1941-1945 is part of Soviet propaganda. It was so often mythologized and changed that the real facts about the war began to be perceived as a threat to the existing system.
The saddest thing is that today's Russia has inherited this approach to history. The authorities prefer to present the history of the Great Patriotic War as it is beneficial to them.
Here are 10 facts about the Great Patriotic War that are not beneficial to anyone. Because these are just facts.
1. The fate of 2 million people who died in this war is still unknown. It is incorrect to compare, but to understand the situation: in the United States the fate of no more than a dozen people is unknown.
Most recently, through the efforts of the Ministry of Defense, the Memorial website was launched, thanks to which information about those who died or went missing has now become publicly available.
However, the government spends billions on “ patriotic education", Russians wear ribbons, every second car on the street is going "to Berlin", the authorities are fighting against "counterfeiters", etc. And, against this background, two million fighters whose fate is unknown.
2. Stalin really did not want to believe that Germany would attack the USSR on June 22. There were many reports on this matter, but Stalin ignored them.
A document has been declassified - a report to Joseph Stalin, which was sent to him by the People's Commissar of State Security Vsevolod Merkulov. The People's Commissar named the date, citing a message from an informant - our agent at Luftwaffe headquarters. And Stalin himself imposes a resolution: “You can send your source to your *** mother. This is not a source, but a disinformer.”
3. For Stalin, the start of the war was a disaster. And when Minsk fell on June 28, he fell into complete prostration. This is documented. Stalin even thought that he would be arrested in the first days of the war.
There is a log of visitors to Stalin’s Kremlin office, where it is noted that the leader is not in the Kremlin for a day, and not for the second, that is, June 28. Stalin, as it became known from the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, Anastas Mikoyan, as well as the manager of the Council of People's Commissars Chadayev (later the State Defense Committee), was at the “nearby dacha,” but it was impossible to contact him.
And then his closest associates - Klim Voroshilov, Malenkov, Bulganin - decide to take a completely extraordinary step: to go to the “nearby dacha”, which was absolutely impossible to do without calling the “owner”. They found Stalin pale, depressed and heard wonderful words from him: “Lenin left us a great power, and we screwed it up.” He thought they had come to arrest him. When he realized that he was called to lead the fight, he perked up. And the next day it was created State Committee defense
4. But there were also opposite moments. In October 1941, which was terrible for Moscow, Stalin remained in Moscow and behaved courageously.
Speech by J.V. Stalin at the Soviet Army parade on Red Square in Moscow on November 7, 1941.
October 16, 1941 - on the day of panic in Moscow, all barrage detachments were removed, and Muscovites left the city on foot. Ashes flew through the streets: secret documents and departmental archives were burned.
The People's Commissariat of Education hastily burned even Nadezhda Krupskaya's archive. At the Kazansky station there was a train under steam for the evacuation of the government to Samara (then Kuibyshev). But
5. In the famous toast “to the Russian people,” said in 1945 at a reception on the occasion of the Victory, Stalin also said: “Some other people could say: you did not live up to our hopes, we will install another government, but the Russian people will not accept this.” did not go".
Painting by Mikhail Khmelko. "For the great Russian people." 1947
6. Sexual violence in defeated Germany.
Historian Antony Beevor, while researching for his 2002 book Berlin: The Fall, found reports of the epidemic in the Russian state archives. sexual violence on the territory of Germany. These reports were sent by NKVD officers to Lavrentiy Beria at the end of 1944.
“They were passed on to Stalin,” says Beevor. - You can see by the marks whether they were read or not. They report mass rapes in East Prussia and how German women tried to kill themselves and their children to avoid this fate.”
And rape was not just a problem for the Red Army. Bob Lilly, a historian at Northern Kentucky University, was able to gain access to US military court records.
His book (Taken by Force) caused so much controversy that at first no American publisher dared to publish it, and the first edition appeared in France. Lilly estimates that about 14,000 rapes were committed by American soldiers in England, France and Germany from 1942 to 1945.
What was the actual scale of the rapes? The most often cited figures are 100 thousand women in Berlin and two million throughout Germany. These figures, hotly disputed, were extrapolated from the scant medical records that survive to this day. ()
7. The war for the USSR began with the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939.
The Soviet Union de facto took part in World War II from September 17, 1939, and not from June 22, 1941. Moreover, in alliance with the Third Reich. And this pact is a strategic mistake, if not a crime, of the Soviet leadership and Comrade Stalin personally.
In accordance with secret protocol to the non-aggression pact between the Third Reich and the USSR (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) after the outbreak of the Second World War, the USSR invaded Poland on September 17, 1939. On September 22, 1939, a joint parade of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army was held in Brest, dedicated to the signing of an agreement on the demarcation line.
Also in 1939-1940, according to the same Pact, the Baltic states and other territories in present-day Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus were occupied. Among other things, this led to a common border between the USSR and Germany, which allowed the Germans to carry out a “surprise attack.”
By fulfilling the agreement, the USSR strengthened the army of its enemy. Having created an army, Germany began to conquer European countries, increasing its power, including new military factories. And most importantly: by June 22, 1941, the Germans had gained combat experience. The Red Army learned to fight as the war progressed and finally got used to it only towards the end of 1942 - beginning of 1943.
8. In the first months of the war, the Red Army did not retreat, but fled in panic.
By September 1941, the number of soldiers trapped in German captivity, equaled the entire pre-war regular army. MILLIONS of rifles were reportedly abandoned in the flight.
Retreat is a maneuver without which there can be no war. But our troops fled. Not all, of course, there were those who fought to the last. And there were a lot of them. But the pace of the German advance was staggering.
9. Many “heroes” of the war were invented by Soviet propaganda. So, for example, there were no Panfilov heroes.
The memory of 28 Panfilov men was immortalized by the installation of a monument in the village of Nelidovo, Moscow region.
The feat of 28 Panfilov guardsmen and the words “Russia is great, but there is nowhere to retreat - Moscow is behind » was attributed to the political instructor by employees of the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, in which the essay “About 28 Fallen Heroes” was published on January 22, 1942.
“The feat of the 28 Panfilov guardsmen, covered in the press, is the invention of the correspondent Koroteev, the editor of the Red Star Ortenberg, and especially the literary secretary of the newspaper Krivitsky. This fiction was repeated in the works of writers N. Tikhonov, V. Stavsky, A. Bek, N. Kuznetsov, V. Lipko, Svetlov and others and was widely popularized among the population of the Soviet Union.”
Photo of the monument in honor of the feat of the Panfilov guards in Alma-Ata.
This is information from a certificate-report, which was prepared based on the investigation materials and signed on May 10, 1948 by the chief military prosecutor of the USSR armed forces, Nikolai Afanasyev. The authorities launched a whole investigation into the “feat of Panfilov’s men,” because already in 1942, fighters from the same 28 Panfilov men who were on the list of those buried began to appear among the living.
10. Stalin in 1947 canceled the celebration (day off) of Victory Day on May 9. Until 1965, this day was a regular working day in the USSR.
Joseph Stalin and his comrades knew very well who won this war - the people. And this surge of popular activity frightened them. Many, especially front-line soldiers, who lived for four years in constant proximity to death, stopped, tired of being afraid. In addition, the war violated the complete self-isolation of the Stalinist state.
Many hundreds of thousands Soviet people(soldiers, prisoners, “Ostarbeiters”) visited abroad, having the opportunity to compare life in the USSR and in Europe and draw conclusions. It was a deep shock for the collective farmer soldiers to see how Bulgarian or Romanian (not to mention German or Austrian) peasants lived.
Orthodoxy, which had been destroyed before the war, revived for a time. In addition, military leaders acquired a completely different status in the eyes of society than they had before the war. Stalin feared them too. In 1946, Stalin sent Zhukov to Odessa, in 1947 he canceled the celebration of Victory Day, and in 1948 he stopped paying for awards and wounds.
Because not thanks to, but despite the actions of the dictator, having paid an exorbitant price, he won this war. And I felt like a people - and there was and is nothing more terrible for tyrants.
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