GRANDPARENTS DURING WORLD WAR 2

WORLD WAR 2

• Ww2 was the biggest lose of life since ww1
• With Hitler rising to power the nazis target anyone with different morals
• WIth the places like Auschwitz common people had to tread carefully

WW2 CONT.

• With Germany expanding from every direction there is nowhere to flee
• The US had thousands of immigrants fleeing the war
• With threats around every corner people try to hide from thr front of the war
• The war decimates millions of lives and thousands of homes

WW2 FACTS

• For every five German soldiers who died in WWII, four of them died on the Eastern Front.
• It is estimated that 1.5 million children died during the Holocaust.
• The longest battle of WWII was the Battle of the Atlantic, which lasted from 1939-1945.
• The Battle of the Bulge is the largest and deadliest battle for U.S. troops to date, with more than 80,000 American casualties.

WW2 FACTS CONT..

• World War II was the most destructive conflict in history. It cost more money, damaged more property, killed more people, and caused more far-reaching changes than any other war in history.
• The country with the largest number of WWII causalities was Russia, with over 21 million.
• In addition to Jews and gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses were also persecuted and murdered in German concentration camps.

MORE WW2 FACTS

• WWII ended on September 2, 1945, when Japan signed a surrender agreement on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
• Anne Frank and her sister died at Bergen-Belsen in March 1945, one month before the camp was liberated in April 1945
• From 1940-1945, the U.S. defense budget increased form $1.9 billion to $59.8 billion

PERSONAL ATTACHMENT

• My grand parents went through world war 2 without any injuries
• My grandmother was in Yugoslavia when world war 2 started
• The elders found out the russians were coming so they sent the kids to budapest

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• When they were in budapest they slept in a abandoned school
• They rested there for a couple of months but then had to move again
• The russians were still pushing so they boarded cattle trains to flee the russians

MY GRANDFATHER

• During the war my grabdfather was relatively unaffected
• The town of Bitz was used as a stache of people, weapons, and food
• My grandpa left Germany so that he can make a new life in america

Work cited

Fischer, Henry A. "Franzfeld in the Banat." Swabian Trek. Henry A. Fischer, 2012. Web. 13 Oct. 2014. .

"WWII OVERVIEW:." The National WWII Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2014. .