World War II
**World War II: Strange Facts**
On the anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, during World War II, the American site “Business Insider” published 16 little-known facts about the war:
1. The first German soldier killed in the war was by the Japanese army.
2. The first American soldier killed in the war was by Russian soldiers.
3. Over 100,000 Allied aircrew members were killed in Europe.
4. Most American military casualties came from the Air Force.
5. A Polish Catholic convoy handed over more than 3,000 children to the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in Poland.
6. In 1941, more than 3 million cars were manufactured in the U.S.
7. Four out of every five German soldiers died during the war.
8. Only 20% of males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 survived the war.
9. The youngest soldier in World War II, Calvin Graham, served in the U.S. Army at just 12 years old.
10. One in four soldiers on U.S. ships survived.
11. To avoid using the German word “Hamburger” during the war, American soldiers called it “Liberty Steak.”
12. William Hitler, the nephew of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, served in the U.S. Navy during the war.
13. Japan’s largest spy network during the war operated in Mexico.
14. The highest death rate among POWs was in Soviet army camps, reaching 85%.
15. The first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin killed an elephant at the Berlin Zoo.
16. The total death toll from World War II was between 50 and 70 million people, with more than 50% of them civilians.
