Now that I've finished reading.....

I think it was very unfortunate that during Hitler's reign as fuhrer there was a mass killing of German jews (in the thousands). What I didn't know what was those known as "gypsies", Roma and Sinti, were also killed. The United States was also guilty of punishing innocent citizens because of their race, as seen with the imprisonment of Japanese American families & 'resident aliens' being sent to a somewhat more humane version of a concentration camp (on U.S. soil). It's a shame that President Roosevelt made that an executive order. Tsk tsk.
Another interesting piece of information I learned was that the weather played an overlooked role in the war. D-Day was postponed by the "adverse weather forecast". Fighting, especially in mountainous regions, would be suspended for snow/cold related reasons, making movement difficult for any army.
The infamous atomic bomb. Do we all agree that one could have been enough? (not to say that an atomic bomb should have been used or was necessary....but if we really wanted to have Japan surrender why did we have to grace them with two?)
A few years ago I visited my sister at her military base in Germany. The first thing she pointed out to me was an office building atop a hill that overlooked all the smaller buildings. Right in the middle of the building, in all it's WWII glory, was a swastika. The building was purposely designed like that. This army base was a former Nazi base. Go figure.