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21 Interesting facts about WW2 – Part 3

ww2_3_1In September 1941, Germany took 665,000 Red Army PoWs in Ukraine. Next month, another 663,000 Soviet soldiers surrendered. Tweet This


ww2_3_2Soviet Army trained dogs to blow up tanks with strapped on explosives. Tweet This



ww2_3_3During the Soviet winters, Wehrmacht used heated bricks to keep warm and operational the machine guns. Tweet This



ww2_3_4In the winter of 1941, more Germans suffered from the cold than from battle wounds. Tweet This


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ww2_3_5In 1920s and 1930s many German pilots and army personnel were trained in Russia in breach of Versailles Treaty. Tweet This


ww2_3_6Stalin knew about upcoming Pearl Harbor attack (meaning that Japan will not attack USSR) and started his counter-offensive against Germans on 5 December 1941. Tweet This


ww2_3_7Many French volunteers joined the Wehrmacht in 1941 and took part in the battle for Moscow. Tweet This


ww2_3_8In Russian winter, units equipped with horses were moving twice as fast as mechanized ones. Tweet This


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ww2_3_9Spanish volunteers formed the so called Blue Division. Tweet This


ww2_3_10Encircled German troops successfully waged war over one year around Demyansk, receiving supplies on air. Hitler thought that he could repeat it in Stalingrad. Tweet This


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ww2_3_11Battle for Holm was the only case when a fortress had no artillery inside and used howitzer fire support from outside. Tweet This



ww2_3_12The biggest gun in WW2 (named Dora) was used in the siege of Sevastopol. With one shot it destroyed ammunition depot covered with 100 feet (30 m) concrete. Tweet This


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facts about ww2 13In 1942, Turkey was supposed to enter the war against Soviets following the expected German success in Caucasus and Stalingrad. Tweet This


ww2_3_14German deserters were attracted to improvised cinemas in German bases, apprehended by military police, equipped and sent back to the front. Tweet This


ww2_3_15Short of tanks, German col. Went started “stealing” one tank from each transient German convoy. He formed one full tank battalion unbeknownst to his commanders. Tweet This


ww2_3_16To mark the roads in the snow, Germans cut the legs of frozen dead horses and put them along the road. Tweet This


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ww2_3_17Only one German sergeant escaped from Stalingrad encirclement. He got killed the very next day when an air bomb hit the German hospital he was in. Tweet This


ww2_3_18Out of 105,000 German soldiers who surrendered at Stalingrad, just 5,500 came back home. Tweet This


ww2_3_19Last German POWs came back to Germany in 1955. Tweet This


facts about ww2 20General Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach wanted to form an anti-Hitler army from the Stalingrad survivors, but Stalin refused. Tweet This


ww2_3_21Former Soviet General Andrey Vlasov tried to unite anti-communist Russians into the Russian Liberation Army, which fought only one battle against the Red Army. Tweet This

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