This was later corroborated by a top German General, Alfred Jodl, who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (and the man speaking to Hitler in the picture), who stated at the Nuremberg trials that: In order to receive the medal, the individual must have put their own life at risk while performing beyond the call of duty against an enemy of the U.S. Based on the nature of the medal it is commonly awarded posthumously (after death). Because Poland's "allies" feared that if Poland became fully mobilized in August that it might "offend" and "provoke" Germany. Victims of Soviet Terror- 1,800,000 deported and 750,000 released; 1,050,000 dead (15,000 Katyn; 565,000 in Labor camps; 220,000 Missing; 150,000 Died since 1955; 100,000 unaccounted for). Population of 35.339 million includes about 240,000 in Polish annexed Zaolzie area around esk Tn. Before he went to war, however, Wilsons policy reflected the same weird combination of no, were not intervening now, but yes, at some future date we will guarantee everything that we saw, in the year before Putins War, in the Biden policy toward NATO expansion. Even in November 1941, despite an ongoing quasi-war with German U-Boats in the North Atlantic, polls showed that 70 percent of the public still wanted to stay out. France, Battle of In the early dawn hours of April 9, German troops crossed the Danish border, and German warships sailed into Copenhagen 's harbour. Population not ethnic Polish includes 2,916,000 Jews. Warsaw 2005. Advertisement A harrowing journey One survivor of the death march told the Allies how, "on January 18, 1945, some 3,000 prisoners. A war in the Pacific, for instance, would immediately bring into sharp focus the need to hit Chinese bases before China hit American bases and carriers. They found in that extinct world possessions of far greater interest to them than they found in their own. After youve been humiliated, there is a limit to the humiliation you are willing to suffer. Maly Rocznik Statystyczny Polski- London 1941, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, "Between Nazis and Soviets: occupation politics in Poland, 1939-1947", Lexington Books, 2004, pgs. [38], In the aftermath of the September 1939 German and Soviet invasion of Poland, the territory of Poland was divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (USSR). Today, Gross-Rosen is part of Poland and known as Rogoznica. WWI lasted for 4 years; from 1914 to 1918. Czesaw uczak also authored an article in the Polish academic journal Dzieje Najnowsze Rocznik, titled Szanse i trudnosci bilansu demograficznego Polski w latach 19391945 (Possibilities and Difficulties of the Demographic Balance in Poland 1939-1945), pages 914: Source: Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. Since some of the scholarly sources are disputed and differ on the number of casualties in a country, a range of deaths, both for military and civilian, is given. 621, Grzegorz Motyka, Od rzezi woyskiej do akcji "Wisa". Dane te zostay uzupenione o wyliczenia z innych rde. With surveys, excavations, and other archaeological methods, a team led by Dawid Kobiaka (center) located a mass grave in the woods of Poland's "Death Valley.". However, it is estimated that at least 6.9 million of them were killed and another 7.3 million wounded. American war planners knew in 1941 that Germany was the primordial threat, but American public opinion had resided for two years in the same anomalous state as we find today in Ukraine policy. Depending on the definitions placed on deaths or casualties that resulted from warfare or crimes against humanity by historians, the figures will vary across resources. Statistical accounting broke down in both Allied and Axis nations when whole armies were surrendered or dispersed. 1950 2000 2050 2100 Current Historical U.N. War it shall be!. 1. This was later corroborated by a top German General, Alfred Jodl, who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (and the man speaking to Hitler in the picture), who stated at the Nuremberg trials that: Dispropaganda is 100% independent non partisan and non profit, in order to keep the site up we rely on financial supprt from our readers. In a section on the demographic losses he presented estimated losses with some brief observations. Polish citizens were taken to Germany as forced laborers under inhuman conditions, which resulted in many deaths. One in every five Poles was murdered by the Germans during WW2. This figure includes 2.9 million Jews, 2.0 million. Poles in rural areas and small towns were also conscripted for forced labor by the German occupiers. Krystyna Kersten, Szacunek strat osobowych w Polsce Wschodniej. "No Simple Victory"." The figure of 95-97,000 killed in the 1939 campaign includes 17-19,000 in Soviet hands as POW. The second reason has to do with the Polish state itself. Listed beneath each campaign are the ships and units in alphabetic order followed by the personnel casualties by last number. Most Polish citizens who perished in the war were civilian victims of the war crimes and crimes against humanity during the occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), Warszawa 2009, Lee Ready, World War Two: Nation by Nation, Arms & Armour, 1996, Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, University of New Hampshire at Manchester, Central Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, Europe at War 19391945: No Simple Victory, Resolve the Ukrainian Question Once and For All: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ukrainians in Poland, 1943-1947, Timothy Snyder, Working Paper, Yale University, 2001. [58][59][60], A. The government of Germany reported that about 4.3 million military personnel either died or are missing and 0.5-2 million civilian deaths. The C7P was designed to serve as a prime mover for the huge 220 mm wz.32 koda heavy mortar, in addition to serving as recovery vehicles. What were the turning points of World War II? [47], According to the figures published by the Polish government in exile in 1941 there were about 7.0 million Polish citizens from ethnic minorities at the beginning of the war in September 1939, mostly Ukrainians, Belarusians, Polishchuks and Lithuanians living in the eastern regions of Poland annexed by the USSR. Polska 19391945. Within Poland, the IPN (Polish Institute of National Remembrance) places their estimated war dead between 5.6 and 5.8 million people. 2022. If Germany attacked France, Poland would attack Germany within 2 days (immediately, if there were any prior indications of the impeding German action in France, Poland would m. [48] According to the IPN 5,437 ethnic Germans were killed in the 1939 military campaign. France and the UK were also responsible for the fact that Poland did not fully mobilized its armed forces. However, as history showed, the same could not be said of the French and the British who could have easily stormed through Germany's poorly defended western borders while the bulk of the German army was busy fighting in Poland. German WW2 - Soldier Death Card * ORIGINAL * 1942 - Fought In France, Poland, | eBay German WW2 -- Soldier Death Card ** ORIGINAL ** 1942 $8.99 + $3.25 shipping German WW2 -- Soldier Death Card ** ORIGINAL ** 1942 $8.99 + $3.25 shipping German WW2 -- Soldier Death Card ** ORIGINAL ** Mountain Division 1942 $8.99 + $3.25 shipping per capita, the Government General region produced only 202.7 kg. An additional 660,000 Jews from other countries, were transported to Auschwitz and murdered. Only for the United States and the British Commonwealth can official figures showing killed, wounded, prisoners or missing for the armed forces be cited with any degree of assurance. Pacethe neocons, I think that there are tremendous fallacies in seeing Putin as a Hitler, mainly because he sees himself as an anti-Hitler, but one has to say that Russian decision-making in the last two months does look a bit like Der Fhrers. "[91], Poland lost a total of about 140,000 regular soldiers killed and missing. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. "Poland in the Second World War." "The Polish Campaign 1939." During the war 522,149 ethnic Germans from other nations were settled in Poland by the Third Reich. The U.S. National Archives has a number of World War 2 Casualty resources that range across the U.S. Armed Forces as well as a number of records regarding other nations. The 1947 Report of the Polish Bureau of War Damages considered only Poles and Jews in the 1939 population, other minorities were not included with the losses. How Putin and Donald Tusk covered up what caused the Polish presidential plane crash in 2010. [62], B. If we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions. Many others were victims of the 1939-1941 Soviet occupation of eastern Poland and of deportations to Central Asia and Siberia. [14][15][16] The Nazi death camps located in Poland are sometimes incorrectly described as Polish death camps. War, perhaps more than any other human endeavor, brings with it historical memories and comparisons. The Polish strategy was to try to preserve the bulk of its army for this future planned offensive, while defending the country. Tell us what youre willing to do now.. [17], D. Population Losses 1939 Campaign- Bajer estimated that 69% of the 1,230,000 human losses in Sept. 1939 were Poles. Of the countrys total casualties, about 2.1 million were military personnel while 500,000-800,000 were civilians. Gniazdowski, Mateusz. As time moves on, and previously closed records become released the full toll of World War 2 on the civilian populations has become better recognized. Estimates of the total number of people killed during World War II have ranged from 35,000,000 to 60,000,000a significant span, because statistics about the wars casualties are inexact. The 7TP was the most modern Polish tank at the time of the outbreak of WW2. Jzef Garliski, Oskar Schindler: how Hollywood turned a Nazi into a hero, Israel's former head of Space program says that Aliens exist and that they're among us, The secret truth about the Saddam Hussein - USA relationship, Ben & Jerrys are as 'woke' as they are hypocrites. government to members of the armed forces. When the war entered its third week the Polish army fielded more then 250,000 troops and was stil inflicting heavy casualties on the Germans. Specifically, the fall of Communism and the opening of records in the former Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and other countries have helped modern historians make a better accounting of the number of civilian casualties suffered during World War 2. Source: Wiki. History of Accounting for the War Dead from World War 2, U.S. Military World War 2 Medal of Honor Recipients, Negative Effects on the U.S. Economy Caused by World War 2, The P-51 Mustang in Europe, The need for and effects of the P-51 Mustang in the skies over Europe. The Government of Russia, following a study conducted by the Russian Academy of Science in 1993, puts the deaths at 26.6 million, including about 8.66 million military deaths. The Allies responded to Wilsons posture in the same way the Ukrainians have done in the present crisis: Hello, Uncle Sam, there happens to be a war going on right now, raising the issue of aggression in the starkest terms, so dont tell us what youre going to do later on. During the occupation, communities were held collectively responsible for Polish attacks against German troops and mass executions were conducted in reprisal. In many battles Poles held their ground against overwhelming German numbers, the most famous of these was the Battle of Wizna, where a single Polish infantry battalion with some 600 soldiers held out for four days against a whole German army consisting of 42,000 soldiers, almost 400 tanks and hundreds more of artillery and armored vehicles. The United States went to war. Those basic parameters were followed until December 7, 1941. Hello!This is my first mapping video, where i try to simulate WW2 with the help of France and UK.Hope you Enjoy! Updates? Around six million Polish people died during the five year German occupation, three million Polish Jews and three million Catholic Poles. Civilians captured by German police for forced labor (Poland 1941), Germanization of Polish children in Nazi-German labor camp in, Polish casualties in English language sources, Krystyna Kersten, Szacunek strat osobowych w Polsce Wschodniej. (Many Polish Jews found refuge in the Soviet Union and other countries.) He was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party in communist Poland. Figure of 644,000 deaths caused by direct war operations includes 123,000 military casualties. British Prime minister Neville Chamberlain (left) and the French Prime Edouard Daladier (right). As Germany . The American Ideas Institute is a nonprofit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington, D.C. 2022 The American Conservative, a publication of The American Ideas Institute. Estimated casualties of resistance movements have been included in military figures, other victims of Nazi persecution in the civilian ones. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami. Krakw 2011, p.447. One month later, he made some peace offers to the governments of Britain and France, who took long to reply. The Polish War casualties have been contradicted with the Polish government reporting 6.02 million deaths including 3 million ethnic Poles and 3 million Jews. They entered the Old World to reform it but then got swallowed and broken by its enmities. By The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Known as the Luftwaffe. According to research published in 2009 by the Institute of National Remembrance about 1.0 million Polish citizens from all ethnic groups were arrested, conscripted or deported by the Soviet occupiers from 1939 to 1941; including about 200,000 Polish military personnel held as prisoners of war; 100,000 Polish citizens were arrested and imprisoned by the Soviets, including civic officials, military personnel and other "enemies of the people" like the clergy and Polish educators; 475,000 Poles who were considered "enemies of the people" were deported to remote regions of the USSR; 76,000 Polish citizens were conscripted into the Soviet Armed forces and 200,000 were conscripted as forced laborers in the interior of the Soviet Union. Human Losses and Victims of Repression Under the Two Occupations) that estimated Poland's war dead at between 5.6 and 5.8 million Poles and Jews, including 150,000 during the Soviet occupation. . [84], Source: Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. What were the turning points of World War II? Projections -2.00 -1.00 0.00 1.00 Annual % Change. [41], According to Franciszek Proch the total of those deported was 1,800,000 of whom 1,050,000 perished. Insofar as they did see it coming, as they began to do towards the end, I think they feared it more than welcomed it. Dzieje Najnowsze Rocznik XXI- 1994 p. 47. Was the Russian elite all lying when they said that the idea of a full-scale Russian invasion was a fantasy of the United States, that there was no way Putin would do something so foolish, that these projections reflected a big plot by the usual suspects? [76], Thaddeus Piotrowski is a Polish-American sociologist. Konflikt polsko-ukraiski 1943- 1947. [4] They teach that the fervent desire to stay out of war may succumb in time to what Jefferson called the chapter of accidents. Were just in Week One of the new world aborning, not fully conscious of all the tumbling dominos to follow. Some of the estimated numbers of deaths and wounded are unreliable and have been contested several times. They pointed out that Czesaw uczak estimated the total population loss at 500,000 ethnic Poles in the Soviet occupied regions. 'Documentation remains fragmentary, but today scholars of independent Poland believe that 1.8 to 1.9 million Polish civilians (non-Jews) were victims of German Occupation policies and the war. They did however breakout the figures of the total war dead. Whatever it proves to be, it will show yet again that what an occupying army does is basically a function of the defiance it meets. War, perhaps more than any other human endeavor, brings with it historical memories and comparisons. Losses outside Polish territory were 500,000 persons. It began before Dawn on the 1st September as the German air force flew over Poland. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there has been a significant amount of research conducted regarding the topic of World War 2 casualties with the resulting opening of previously closed scholarly resources. Assessments and Estimatesan Outline The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, 2007, no. Americas Hungary-Bashing Has Consequences. The Polish army fought very well, even though it was vastly outnumbered and heavily outgunned. Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), Warszawa 2009, ISBN978-83-7629-067-6. Were all thinking about what Week Two will bring, but the dreaded question is what Year Two will bring. The civilians who died away from their home country are numbered among the civilian casualties of the host nation. uczak authored Polska i Polacy w drugiej wojnie wiatowej (Poland and Poles in the Second World War). Answer (1 of 7): Likely there would be no WWII, but the Soviet action and the results of those would be a question mark. Prior to the war the area which became the General Government was not self sufficient in agricultural production and was a net importer of food from other regions of Poland. Records are incomplete, and the Soviet control of Poland for 50 years after the war impeded independent scholarship. Warsaw[68], Franciszek Proch was a Polish lawyer and journalist. This stance bears close comparison with President Bidens policy of inviting Ukraine to join NATO at some future date, but with no commitment of U.S. military power in the here and now. Based on the 7TP tank chassis, a fully tracked artillery tractor named C7P was developed. The Polish strategy was to try to preserve the bulk of its army for this future planned offensive, while defending the country. Norman Davies. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami. Farmers were murdered during pacifications of villages. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and started WW2. Just to put things in perspective, the whole budget of the Polish army, came to less then 10% of what the Germans spent on their air force alone. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami.Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), Warszawa 2009. $35.40 + $13.18 shipping . This is one more item in the index of the folly of the venture, this big surprise sprung by Putin on his people, because the reason those characters didnt see it coming was that it looked just plain incoherent and crazy on its face. During World War 2 a total of 464 Medal of Honors were awarded with 266 of those posthumously. Around 250,000 of France's 600,000 deaths were military personnel. A table that details estimated deaths by country is available here. Nazi war criminals became high ranking commanders in NATO after WW2. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami" (Poland 1939-1945. The invader finds itself doing all sorts of odious things that it did not intend, but which the press of necessity (the alternative is losing) seems to command. [11] Polish researchers estimate that 1,860,000 Polish Jews were murdered in the Nazi death camps, the remainder perished inside the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland, aboard Holocaust trains, and in mass shooting actions. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami.[76]. Stalin, who had sign a pact with Hitler a few weeks earlier promising to help it invade, destroy and partition Poland, had originally planned to invade Poland much earlier, but when he saw that the Germans were encountering stiff Polish resistance he decided to postpone Soviet Russia's invasion and let both sides fight and shed each others blood. How many people died during World War II? [82], B. The official U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Records branch (Bureau of Naval Personnel) still maintains the Navy and Marine Corps 1947 IBM printout arranged chronologically by campaign annotating the official World War 2 casualty accounting. The war to end all wars, the great war, the Kaiser's war, the European war, first world war. They were forced to wear identifying purple tags with "P"s sewn to their clothing, subjected to a curfew, and banned from public transportation. Stalin was also waiting to see whether Britain and France would eventually attack Germany. It may be time to tell Zelensky not only what we will and will not provide but what we believe are the acceptable terms. Western technological advances had turned upon itself, bringing about the most destructive war in human . Polska 19391945. Additionally, at least one million Jews were murdered in the. Despite a number of cultural similarities, such as being prominent old medieval European kingdoms, belonging to Western civilization and sharing a common Roman Catholic religion, relations between France and Poland have only become relevant since the Renaissance era. About the Project. For most other nations, only estimates of varying reliability exist. Polish researchers of the Institute of National Remembrance have estimate about roughly 800,000 ethnic Polish victims during the German occupation including 400,000 in prisons, 148,000 killed in executions and 240,000 deaths among those deported to concentration camps,[25] including 70-75,000[26] at Auschwitz. The common misconception about the German invasion of Poland is that Germany basically rolled over Poland, which was helpless and unable to defend itself while Great Britain and France are remembered for having declared war on Germany and standing by their Polish ally. Ethnic Polish losses are currently estimated in the range of 2 million. Comparison Board edit. [17], C. Ethnic Polish population includes 435,000 Polish speaking Jews. Just after the world war 1, Spanish flue spread drastically killing 50 million. Obama's real legacy makes him one of the worst US presidents of all time. The statistics on World War II casualties are inexact. [42], An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 [43][44][45] ethnic Poles were killed in an ethnic cleansing operation carried out by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) beginning in March 1943 and lasting until the end of 1944 in the Nazi occupied Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. [49] In addition 61,000 . They pointed out that Czesaw uczak estimated the total population loss at 500,000 ethnic Poles in the Soviet occupied regions. Which country was most destroyed in ww2? Bajer, Kazimierz Zakres udziau Polakw w walce o niepodlego na obszarze pastwa polskiego w latach 1939-1945, "Zeszyty Historyczne Stowarzyszenia onierzy Armii Krajowej", (Krakw) 1996 (This article is available in Polish libraries and at the Stanford Univ. The carnage of World War II was unprecedented and brought the world closest to the term "total warfare.". [55] Based on the analysis by Tadeusz Piotrowski roughly 1.0 million Ukrainians and Belarusians and 400,000 Polish speaking Jews were misclassified as Poles in the official figures for the 1939 population. 32,000 Jews died in Polish military. Czesaw uczak was a Polish historian, and Rector of the Adam Mickiewicz University from 1965 to 1972, from 1969 to 1981 and from 1987 to 1991; director the University's Institute of History. [35] During the war there was an increase in infectious diseases caused by the general malnutrition among the Polish population. In its fog, discerning its significance and direction is intrinsically difficult. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war-what would become . However, the exact figure has been disputed, with the Soviets estimating the number to be about 20 million (approximately 13.7% of the population at the time). China is destroying our world, and no one seems to mind. The Polish Bureau of War Damages report of 1947 put Jewish losses at 3.4 million; in a subsequent report to the United Nations this figure was 3.2 million Jewish dead, thus reducing the total to 5.8 million. Some French troops did run away in 1940, but so had some in 1914. German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west the morning after the Gleiwitz incident. The Battle of Bzura, on September 9, was the largest attack by the Poles during the war. The Poles had great initial success by decimating two German divisions and taking 3500 German prisoners. [17] ethnic Germans were living in the General Government. This study was prepared for a conference on war reparations from Germany. An estimated 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 people died during World War II. [32] This Nazi policy caused a humanitarian crisis in Polands urban areas. The original and supplementary records have since been transferred to the Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Administration located at: 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. Despite the western betrayal, If Russia had not invaded Poland in 17 September, 1939, Poland would have dragged the fighting for many more weeks. Polska 19391945. Approximately three million Polish Jews were victims of the Holocaust. Total. The invasion of Poland is seen as one of the most significant events of World War 2. $39.67 + $13.18 shipping . Germany suffered over 60,000 casualties in the Polish campaign while the Poles suffered military losses of around 66,000 soldiers who were either killed or missing in action. POLSKA 1939-1945 STRATY OSOBOWE I OFIARY REPRESJI POD DWIEMA OKUPACJAMI. The whole strategy of Poland in 1939 was based on the fact that the UK and France, which had signed defensive military alliances with Poland prior WW2, were supposed to attack Germany two weeks into the war at the latest. Stanisaw Jankowiak, Wysiedlenie i emigracja ludnoci niemieckiej w polityce wadz polskich w latach 1945-1970, p.211-212, Instytut Pamici Narodowej, Warszawa 2005. Similar pressures will operate on the makers of American foreign policy. [72] The estimates of Franciszek Proch were cited by Tadeusz Piotrowski in his book Poland's Holocaust [73], Source of figures: Franciszek Proch, Poland's Way of the Cross, New York 1987 Pages 143-144. This is an inherent but extremely explosive aspect of Americas worldwide military commitments. The Fallen of World War II is an interactive documentary that examines the human cost of the second World War and the decline in battle deaths in the years since the war. Justus Doenecke has written more books on the history of antiwar foreign policy than anyone, and hes still going. 1/87, 1987. Back then, it was all out aid to the allies, while staying out of the war. Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. The Germans, when they unleashed unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917, forced Wilsons hand. Although Japan was heavily involved in World War II, it is estimated that only 2.5-3.1 million Japanese were killed in the war, representing only 3.5% of its pre-war population. )[82], The Polish government affiliated Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) in 2009 estimated total war dead at between 5,620,000 and 5,820,000 persons. [39], E. Population Not Capable of Resistance(100% ages 114; 50% ages 1519; 30% women 20-39; 100% over 70 years and 632,000 disabled) [81], Source of figures: Bajer, Kazimierz Zakres udziau Polakw w walce o niepodlego na obszarze pastwa polskiego w latach 1939-1945, "Zeszyty Historyczne Stowarzyszenia onierzy Armii Krajowej", (Krakw) 1996 Page 14, A. Bajer uses the 1947 Bureau of War Damages figures as the base to compute his estimate of ethnic Polish war dead. [92][93] The Polish contribution to World War II included the Polish Armed Forces in the West, and the 1st and 2nd Polish Army fighting under Soviet command. The UK and France Declared War" on German, and that was it. World War 2 Casualties (Pie Chart) The last thing Hitler wanted was to find himself fighting a war on two fronts. STANISAWA LESZCZYCKIEGO, Bibliography of Poland during World War II, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_War_II_casualties_of_Poland&oldid=1125563779, Total Population of ethnic Poles and Polish Jews (only) in 1939, Murdered in the extermination camps, executions, liquidation of ghettos, Prisons, concentration camps, epidemics, extenuation, bad treatment, Outside the camps: because of extenuation, wounds, injuries, beatings, hard labour, Victims of prisons and concentration camps, Ethnic Polish Victims During German Occupation, Less population Not Capable of Resistance, Population Capable of Resistance-October 1939, Population Capable of Resistance Oct 1939, Total population Capable of Resistance-May 1945, Population of 27,007,000 includes 5,193,000 Poles and Jews in the. Debunking the myths and propaganda behind 'D-Day'. 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