@thestoriesfromwar: Seven things about the Second World War that rarely make the films. Hamburg, July 1943: the first firestorm deliberately created from the air. The centre reached around 800°C and the asphalt streets caught fire. Tokyo, 9 March 1945: 334 bombers killed roughly 100,000 people in a single night, a higher toll than Nagasaki, and it remains the deadliest air raid in history. Leningrad was cut off for 872 days on a ration that fell to 125 grams of bread. In Bengal, two million starved in a theatre where almost no fighting took place. And at Unit 731 outside Harbin, a Japanese programme experimented on prisoners for years. American intelligence later traded immunity from prosecution for the data. Which of these had you not heard? Sources: The National WWII Museum, Britannica, Smithsonian, POW Research Network Japan #History #wwii #warhistory #militaryhistory

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