1. The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese.

2. The first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians.

3. Over 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed over Europe.

4. Polish Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland.

5. In World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.

6. Four of every five German soldiers killed in the war died on the Eastern Front.

7.Only one out of every four men serving on U-boats survived.

8. The Siege of Stalingrad resulted in more Russian deaths (military and civilian) than the US and Britain sustained (combined) in all of World War II.

9. Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford each kept a framed picture of the other on his desk.

10. The first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.