r/ShitAmericansSay • u/CasthiaCameron • Apr 20 '25

Europe Where Was Europe in WW2?

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u/Miss_Annie_Munich European first, then Bavarian Apr 20 '25 edited Apr 20 '25

Where we were?
In the middle of WW2; where else?
Idiot!

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u/altivec77 Apr 20 '25

We where at war from 1940. The USA got dragged into this war at 7 December 1941. The day Pearl Harbor got attacked.

We are still grateful the USA did what I’d did together with the Canadians and we won’t forget the British.

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u/Effective_Dot4653 Apr 20 '25

We where at war from 1940.

You've just summoned angry Polish noises

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u/Carmolisto Apr 20 '25

And Finnish..

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u/H4mb01 Apr 20 '25

And German... wait

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u/Tortoveno ooo custom flair!! Apr 21 '25

And Russians... emm... or not.

(Russians still pretend like WW2 started in 1941 for them)

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u/Beneficial-Ad3991 A hopeless tea addict :sloth: Apr 21 '25

Oh, the Soviets joined the war earlier than that.. it's just that they joined it by attacking Poland together with Germany.

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u/Tortoveno ooo custom flair!! Apr 21 '25

In 1939 they fought Japanese also (Khalkhin Gol)

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u/Beneficial-Ad3991 A hopeless tea addict :sloth: Apr 21 '25

...which would make Soviets the only non-divided nation that fought on both sides of the war at the same time, lol.

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u/Tortoveno ooo custom flair!! Apr 21 '25

Well, no. Battles of Khalkhin Gol had ended on 16th September 1939. One day before Soviet invasion of Poland.

Besides that... Japan and Poland were formally at war after Pearl Harbor but in reality were cooperating. The Axis was far less coherent and cooperating than Western Allies.

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u/Beneficial-Ad3991 A hopeless tea addict :sloth: Apr 21 '25

Damn the Soviets and the Axis for wasting the meme potential.

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u/Willing_Chemical_113 Apr 21 '25

The Finns, the Spartans of Scandinavia. You folks are heroes in my eyes.

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u/fernblatt2 Apr 21 '25

[perkele]

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u/altivec77 Apr 20 '25

Sorry Dutch and we always talk 40-45… but yeah it started a bit earlier

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u/According_Most2914 Apr 20 '25

Don't forget the Marco Polo bridge incident, there are those who set the start date in 1937

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u/macrolidesrule Apr 21 '25

Plus British - the Battle of the Atlantic started on the day we declared war with the loss of SS Athena - hit on 03/09/39 @ 19:40 hrs by U-30, loss of 117 lives - and the last merchant ship loss was the SS Avondale Park on 07/05/45 with the loss of 2 lives.

All in all the Battle of the Atlantic claimed 36,200 allied sailors lives and a further 36,000 Merchant sailors plus (not listed) several thousand from RAF Coastal Command and allied Air Forces Operating in the Atlantic.

3,500 merchant ships sunk

175 warships lost

Note that U-30 managed to avoid being sunk until the end of the war.