13 Why are Brits not aware that American 100 octane fuel won the Battle of Britain? Yet another case of America providing vital aid to the ungrateful UK.

14 If Adolf Hitler had died just before Operation Barbarossa, how would it have affected Germany's battle plans?

15 Why did Nazi Germany still struggle economically even after taking over several European countries?

16 If Hitler had been captured, what would he have said at the Nuremberg Trials?

17 Why were B-29s never used in the European theater against the Germans?

18 When did Japan apologize for the World War 2 crimes?

19 What are some lesser-known facts about George H.W. Bush's military service?

20 Why does the internet answer to the question "how fast can Enigma be broken today" say less than a minute?

21 Even 80 years after WWII, why is questioning the “victor’s justice” narrative—especially when raised by certain states involved in the war—often labeled as revisionism, and what drives this response?

22 Were Japanese troops concerned or afraid if they realised they were engaging Gurkha troops?

23 Why did the Royal Family consider evacuating to Canada in WW2 despite the fact that there were many hostile Americans who did not like the monarchy and would not have allowed it?

24 What motivated Welch and Taylor to disobey orders and return to the fight during the Pearl Harbor attack, and what impact did their actions have on the battle?

25 If the U.S hadn't dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan, what OTHER bombs would the U.S dropped instead, was there alternatives?

26 Would the UK have surrendered in WW2 if Clement Attlee had been Prime Minister?

27 How many ships did the Warspite sink or damage?

28 Did saboteurs hit Allied railroads in WW2? How hard would it have been to pull a rail in the middle of nowhere, derailing the trains which tried to pass?

29 How did Hitler turn Nazis into psychopaths?

30 What would have happened if Germany had found a pretext to refuse to declare war on the United States after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor?

31 Did Josef Mengele ever feel bad for anything he did?

32 During WW2, the Americans listened to the Brits and invaded Italy. The campaign ended in a dead end with impregnable German mountain fortresses. Why did America listen to the Brits even though they were militarily incompetent throughout the war?

33 What happened to the British equipment at Dunkirk?

34 What lies about WW2 have most of us been taught?

35 What happen to Americans who was in Germany when the war started?

36 Why did some civilians in Western Soviet areas move towards German troops instead of retreating with the Soviet army?

37 Why did surviving Nazis choose Argentina in particular as a refuge?

38 What happened to Anne Frank?

39 Why weren't Australian soldiers left in Australia during WWII? It seems that Japan would be the biggest threat.

40 What does Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mean when he said, “Russia does not see the need to sign a long-awaited peace treaty with Japan to formally end World War II. Not interested in peace.”?

41 Why was Nazi propaganda so successful?

42 What did “AF” mean in the Battle of Midway? I know it meant midway in Japanese code but what did AF mean? Was it random letters or it meant airfield or a Japanese word?

43 Why did the Bismarck's steering get wrecked by a single torpedo, and how could that vulnerability have been addressed?

44 Had the Nazis won World War II, who would have succeeded Hitler as the new Führer: Himmler, Goebbels, Göring, Hess, Eichmann, Bormann, Dönitz, Keitel, Ribbentrop, or other?

45 How has the concept of military loyalty changed from WW2 to modern times?

46 Why don't we call anti-Semitism Jew hatred instead? Wasn't antisemitism used by Nazis to make their actions sound better?

47 It is said that, in World War II, the US went from regular industrial production to war production “overnight.” How long did it actually take for factories to be adjusted for planes, tanks, etc.?

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