FYI_On_WWII

FYI On WWII GERMANY · The first shot of the war was fired from the German battleship the Schleiswig Holstein while stationed across from the Westerplatte. Shots were fired at 4:47 on September 1st, 1939. 5 days later Westerplatte surrendered. · The incident, which triggered the Second World War, was a simulated attack by the Germans. They shot prisoners from nearby concentration camps after they dressed them in Polish Military uniforms. A Polish-speaking German then did the broadcast, making it seem as though the Polish had attacked first. · Displaying the Swastika symbol in Germany is now forbidden. · During the period 1939-1944 Twenty Blenheim fighter-bombers were shot down by friendly fire due to misidentification. · Up till 1933 the German S.A. were equipped with revolvers and machine guns made in the USA. · In 1938 302,535 Germans were in protective custody in Germany for their political views. By the end of the war, over 800,000 Germans had spent time in prison or in camps. · A German financial aid was given to young couples to encourage them to marry and have children in order to raise the birth rate. 694,367 marriages: 485,285 children. · Many German women didn’t want their best clothes lost or burned so they wore them almost constantly. In german, war, killed, first, air, germany, germans, fire, britan, attack, shot, polish, over, lost, japanese, camps, british, bomb, during, westerplatte, time, sunk, raid, raf, planes, period, north, london, later, just, invasion, hit, given, force, days