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Questions about World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War; a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945.
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Did a war memorial in Australia have a Japanese flag on the floor to trample?
From twitter:
Australia's 'HATE' against JPN; War memorial hall in Sydney require
visiters to trample down JP flag./ @mizubasyo シドニ
"シドニ" is Japanese for "Sydney".
Is this photo from a war …
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Did a war memorial in Australia have a Japanese flag on the floor to trample?
This was noted by Masamune Wada, a Japanese politician belonging to the centre-right Your Party. A tweet about the photo, and mentioning Masamune Wada, can be seen here The Japanese language Wikipedia …
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Did the United States' internment involve Japanese foreign nationals?
The mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, David Bowers, wrote in a statement
President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it …
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Did Allied forces use chemical weapons in Okinawa during World War II?
A Japanese friend of mine claimed that Allied forces used poisonous gas during the Battle of Okinawa. I asked for a link to such a claim, and got a link to this section of the Japanese language Wikipe …
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Were the Dene people unaware they had mined ore for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Naga...
From a web project called The Forbidden Rock Prophecy (elsewhere it claims the atomic bombs were prophesied):
Nor did they know what the materials they carried would be used for.
So in addition …
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Is "Syphilis: All of these men have it" a WWII propaganda poster?
Spotted via https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/692846941034549248 (courtesy of a parody picture in https://twitter.com/Megapope/status/692850205297741827), but described as real by Mother Jones in …
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Is "Syphilis: All of these men have it" a WWII propaganda poster?
A google search for "All of these men have it" "Stay away from dance halls" mainly got web 2.0 user generated content websites such as reddit and pinterest. I came across a thesis, but it gave a diffe …
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Did Jews claim to be asians to Imperial Japan?
I came across the following anecdote from the Judaism Stack Exchange: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/5940/jewish-community-in-china-around-ww2/5942
During the questions portion of the …
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Were staff at Bletchley Park predominantly male?
In The Imitation Game, most of the staff portrayed on-screen were male, and Joan Clarke faced sexist assumptions that because she was a woman, she was in the wrong room when she tried to go into the e …
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Did Hiroshima change the layout of its streets subsequent to the war?
The following anecdote has gone viral, seen as a gaffe by someone ignorant of the atomic bombing of the city.
From The morning catch-up: a Battlebus poll, a surprising secrecy advocate and a majestic …
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Did Hiroshima change the layout of its streets subsequent to the war?
Hiroshima City- Burning Ash to Metropolis is a speech by Tadatoshi Akiba who was mayor of Hiroshima from 1999 to 2011. He may or may not be the mayor described in the anecdote.
In the speech, he quot …
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Were "comfort women" well-paid?
"Comfort women" is a commonly used euphemism for sex slaves used by the Japanese army during World War II.
Negationists argue that "Comfort women" were not sex slaves, and make the specific claim tha …
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Do only 49% of Americans know which country bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
From Alternet: Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?, July 1, 2008 (referring to polls conducted over the past three decades):
Which country dropped the nuclear bomb? Only 49% [of Americans po …
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Is this tweet about classes one month after the Hiroshima bombing, and the 2011 tsunami accu...
https://twitter.com/TheKnowledge/status/593936133358276609
Japan. Top: One Month After Hiroshima, 1945. Bottom: One Month After
The Earthquake and Tsunami, 2011. Incredible.
Are the images g …
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Is this tweet about classes one month after the Hiroshima bombing, and the 2011 tsunami accu...
The first image can be seen at the Hiroshima Peace Media Center, in an article titled "Hiroshima: 70 Years After the A-bombing: Students study in open-air classrooms in “A-bomb desert”".
If you clic …
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