World War 2 Facts – Mysterious Facts about World War II

World War 2

@RealTimeWWII is a twitter feed that tweets the events of WWII as they happened on each date and time exactly 72 years earlier.

The Japanese and Russians still haven’t signed the Peace Treaty after WWII due to the Kuril Island Dispute.

During WWII, the Russian Red Army raped more than 2 million German women aged between 13 to 70.

Hirro Onada, a Japanese WWII soldier who refused to surrender after the war finally surrendered in 1974, 29 years after the WWII ended.

During WWII, Queen Elizabeth II served in British Army as a mechanic and a driver.

During WWII, the U.S soldier John R Mckinney retained more 100 Japanese private soldiers.

During WWII, Japanese killed more Chinese when compared to the Jews death toll in the Holocaust.

During WWII, the French helped the Jews to escape from Nazi’s in Paris by permitting them with fake Muslim I.D’s from Mosque of Paris.

Almost 80% of the Soviet males born in 1923 were killed in WWII.

British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill served as an officer in WWII. He lost in the elections of 1946 after WWII, but was again elected as Prime Minister in 1951.