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I Was Born During World War II
No children deserve the gifts that Putin and his thugs are handing out.
I was born September 30th, 1943 in New Zealand. This date was two years prior to the end of World War II, a war that lasted 6 long years and saw the deaths of of between 50 and 55 million civilians who died due to deliberate genocide, massacres, and mass-bombings. It is estimated another 19 to 28 million civilians died as the result of hunger and disease and over 20 million military personnel who were either killed in action or died in prisoner of war camps.
The cause of all these deaths? One man - Adolph Hitler. On September 1, 1939, the German army under the orders of Hitler invaded Poland. They did so to “defend” the Fatherland from Polish soldiers who it was said, had infiltrated and attacked Germany and in doing so, threatened the security of the German people.
It was later discovered, the “Polish” soldiers who began shooting at German citizens were German soldiers dressed in Polish army garb. That was Hitler’s pretext. Two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, thus beginning World War II. On September 17, 1939, Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east under a pact made between Stalin and Hitler that Hitler later broke.
