World War II was a global war waged by the three fascist Axis powers of Germany, Japan and Italy, and from September 1, 1939, Germany launched a blitzkrieg against Poland, which also officially opened the Second World War, ranging from Europe to Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and 2 billion people in 61 countries were involved in the war.
Although Germany lost in World War I, but since Hitler came to power, the country's military strength has developed rapidly, although the Polish mercenaries are millions, but the military strength is still stuck before the First World War, under the German "Blitzkrieg", Poland also quickly fell, and Germany followed by a blitzkrieg against France in 1940.
In the Battle of Britain, Germany again targeted the Soviet Union, and on June 22, 1941, Germany still used blitzkrieg to attack the western territory of the Soviet Union from Arkhangelsk in the north to Astrakhan in the south, and in the early Soviet-German campaign, millions of Soviet troops were annihilated by blitzkrieg.
However, with the deepening of the war in Germany, the Soviet Union is also gradually counterattacking, in the cold winter of Moscow, the German army can not take a step into Moscow, the Soviet army is also using the weather to fight a decisive battle, in the Defense of Moscow, the German army's proud blitzkrieg was defeated by the Soviet army.
The Battle of Kursk was one of the decisive battles in the Soviet-German battlefield of World War II, this battle is also the largest tank battle in World War II, the German army and the Soviet army sent a total of 8,000 tanks to bombard, invested 2.8 million troops, this battle, but also let the Soviet army began to recover the country.
As for the United States also fought against Japan in the Pacific, in the Pacific Campaign, the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa suffered the most casualties, in April 1945, the Battle of Okinawa, the Allied casualties of 70,000, the Allied forces before landing in Japan, but also combined with the two battles to make a casualty assessment, the Allied casualties are expected to be 1 million.
In order to allow Japan to surrender quickly, on July 26, 1945, the United States, Britain, and the Republic of China issued the Potsdam Proclamation, but Japan refused to surrender, and on August 8, 1945, after the Soviet Union ended its war with the Germans, it declared war on Japan.
The Soviet Union sent 1.5 million Soviet troops to northeast China, the Japanese army was quickly defeated, and the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki also made Japan declare unconditional surrender, the Soviet Union, as one of the victorious powers, also took over Japan's surrender, and more than 600,000 Japanese prisoners of war were escorted to Siberia as laborers.
In the midst of this escort labor incident, there was also a small episode, a Soviet soldier named Brezhnekov, while escorting 9 Japanese female nurses, because the snow closed the mountain and lost the road, he simply took 9 female nurses to live in the mountains, this is 19 years.
During these 19 years, 9 female nurses bore 73 children for Brezhnev, and these 9 female nurses relied heavily on him at first and did not resist, and after the incident was reported, Brezhnekov was also sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking prisoners of war without permission.