World War II has got to be one of the most colorful sections of Human history. It's the bloodiest conflict that we've ever known and in reality it really showed what the Human race was capable of, both with amazing and awe inspiring things as well as cruel and terrifying. TV tropes has a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming page about some of the more inspiring moment of Humanity, link below.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/WorldWarII
It also used to have a very interesting page showing exactly how much each individual nation kicked ass in the war...but sadly it got taken down. It's a shame, on that page I learned a lot of interesting things. Some of these things included two people who packed a dead cow full of explosives and snuck them into a concentration camp for the prisoners to use, how Japan tried to make a submersible aircraft carrier, about how the Queen of England refused to retreat even after the palace was bombed, how Poland put up such a fight when Germany took their country that they had to spend all winter putting their armored division back together, and then how tens of thousands of soldiers managed to run through Nazi Germany all the way to England so that they could keep fighting, about the battle of Winza where Polish soldiers were outnumbered 40 to 1 but managed to hold their own for three days and went down fighting, how a Polish spy managed to impersonate a German general and get information that would help England crack the German code their commander refusing to retreat, and without a doubt the most awesome part of World War II,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Wojtek_the_bear.jpg
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Wojtek, the Polish soldier bear. This bear (and I'm not making this up) was officially part of the Polish army, smoked cigarettes and drank beer, and helped move ammo for the 22nd Artillery Supply Company, to the point where he was put on their sign. Oh, he also smelled out and knocked out a German spy.
So yeah, in my opinion, World War II really showed what we were capable of, for better and worse. To quite Sirius Black "Times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others" so...let's share. Share stories that you have heard about World War II, be they heroic or villainous, heart warming or tragic. This war personifies what we are capable of as a species, we would be ignorant to not analyze it.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/WorldWarII
It also used to have a very interesting page showing exactly how much each individual nation kicked ass in the war...but sadly it got taken down. It's a shame, on that page I learned a lot of interesting things. Some of these things included two people who packed a dead cow full of explosives and snuck them into a concentration camp for the prisoners to use, how Japan tried to make a submersible aircraft carrier, about how the Queen of England refused to retreat even after the palace was bombed, how Poland put up such a fight when Germany took their country that they had to spend all winter putting their armored division back together, and then how tens of thousands of soldiers managed to run through Nazi Germany all the way to England so that they could keep fighting, about the battle of Winza where Polish soldiers were outnumbered 40 to 1 but managed to hold their own for three days and went down fighting, how a Polish spy managed to impersonate a German general and get information that would help England crack the German code their commander refusing to retreat, and without a doubt the most awesome part of World War II,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Wojtek_the_bear.jpg
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Wojtek, the Polish soldier bear. This bear (and I'm not making this up) was officially part of the Polish army, smoked cigarettes and drank beer, and helped move ammo for the 22nd Artillery Supply Company, to the point where he was put on their sign. Oh, he also smelled out and knocked out a German spy.
So yeah, in my opinion, World War II really showed what we were capable of, for better and worse. To quite Sirius Black "Times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others" so...let's share. Share stories that you have heard about World War II, be they heroic or villainous, heart warming or tragic. This war personifies what we are capable of as a species, we would be ignorant to not analyze it.
