Super Weird Facts About WW2 You Didn't Know

The World War Two is embedded in our memory as a sequence of grand battles with elaborate politics of the time when millions of people lost their lives. They not only depict normal and predictable history, but also stories so unbelievably gruesome that one is tempted to think that the events are borrowed from works of fiction. The war witnessed the strangest and oddest of men such as weird officers and improbable partners - it was a theater of the complicated, revealing an endless array of human diversity. The following are the most impressive and though provoking stories even from the unsaid historical events of that turbulent time.

1- The nephew of the same name, William Patrick Hitler, was an opposite of his notorious uncle, the Fuhrer. The opposite of what his father had been, William decided to protest against tyranny by enrolling in the US Navy. Still, he delayed his decision to the last moment because of his family name. The very fact that he was a gunner on the front lines instead of being confined in prison like his family members was a major departure from their segregating and discriminatory heritage.

2- Calvin Graham, the young gun who at an age of twelve could second best Nazi monsters, symbolized the true defiance of the youth against the tyranny of fascism. Actively concealing his age, he enlisted in the Navy and was on board the USS South Dakota during his several years of service until he was unmasked. Nevertheless, atbr the price of his all merit sheet, the spirit of those people who waged against oppression can be traced back to his audacity.

3- Unlikely as it may seem, among the units of the Polish Army there walked a soldier who could barely boast even a passing resemblance to a person - one Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear. He saw friendship among many of them in such a situation even until they gave this little bear a nickname of Wojtek. Saluting and wrestling were one of his signature actions while he was alive thus there was no wonder that he earned the Corporal rank until his passing.

4- Why the animals lost their voices high above the brim of war, the seriousness of war began to strike them as well. RAF bombing missions over Berlin killed an elephant living in the zoo, illustrating air raids destructiveness and its indiscriminate character. Siam survived alone only to watch how a new battle between humankind and wild animal tore through Ayothayan soil.

5- Conveying the depth of his thoughts into his letters, Gandhi valiantly attempted to persuade Hitler from the path of war through expressive writings. However, his efforts unless he broke in through the colonial authorities; but the call did not escape the whirlpool of global conflict, but only a glimmer of hope in the midst of the darkness.

6- Shoichi Yokoi man's story illustrating ends of devotion was through his searching for ways for survival alone. The secluded jungles of Guam had him for a quarter century, and yet deeply and beyond war, he continued to stay, symbolizing resolution, constancy, and endurance even though in isolation.

7- Elizabeth, the future queen of UK, exhibited a new type of duty in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during her volunteerism as an auto mechanic. She relinquished her titles and started to sweat and toil with her comrades showing the world that fierce will and unity were the Allies strength.

8- While reading about the weird life anecdotes, don’t be fooled because the real truth is about the humongous sufferings amongst the human beings that are talked about in the narration. Mere numbers of casualties of World War II do not convey the scale of the tragedy, and people's lives do not illustrate the horror of survival and loss. And through history reverberate these actions as a lesson in the vulnerability of peace.

World War II saw various strands woven into the quilt of that turbulent period, with these stories being poignant emblems of the beauty of assortment that shaped our history. They may even ridicule the sublime to the grotesque but in any case, they highlight how the humane, heroic and even ridiculous can arise out of tragedies. Let the history books usher in the age of wonder and compassion as we regarded the past and live the future in peace.