10 Facts About WWII That You Should Know
WWII Fact #5: Deadly dates – August 6, 1945 and August 9, 1945
Do you know what these deadly dates are? These are the dates when USA, under the order of then President Harry Truman, dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9).
WWII Fact #5: Little Boy and Fat Man
No, these are not names of comic book characters. Little Boy was the name of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Fat Man was the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Little Boy and Fat Man were the deadliest weapons used in WWII, causing more than 200,000 deaths in the first couple of months.
WWII Fact #6: The Holocaust and Racial Hygiene
Besides the war amongst nations, WWII was also witness to The Holocaust which was a part of Adolf Hitler’s policy of ‘racial hygiene’. Tens of millions of people were held as prisoners in camps, just because of their race. They were tortured, starved and later executed in mass executions. Can you believe that more than 11 million people were killed between 1939 and 1945 because of these executions?
WWII Fact #7: Adolf Hitler, his marriage and immediate suicide
We fail to understand how Hitler could have thought of marriage at the peak of WWII. He got married on April 29, 1945 to Eva Braun, when German troops were about to get defeated. What is even more bizarre is that Hitler and Eva committed suicide the very next day. Hitler shot himself, while Eva bit into a cyanide pill.
