WWII in Three Hundred Words (or Less)

It’s been done. In the least likely of places ever, no doubt, but done. An excerpt:

The USA tools up the world, ‘cause it’s got more factories than everybody else put together, & they’re out of bomber range.
Axis runs out of steam in Russia, cause Russia’s enormous & bloody freezing.
Allies invade on D-Day… 5 landings: 2 British, 2 American, 1 Canadian. (everybody forgets the Canadians.)
Hitler ends up smouldering in a ditch.

Not good for much. Yet incredibly, the summary manages to pull out some of the conflict’s least-remembered elements. For example, it’s now uncomfortable to mention that boatloads of citizens of Axis-occupied countries up and joined the SS, not local resistance movements.

Not unlike Band of Brothers, where, early in the series (D-Day Plus One, in fact) E Company passes by a group of German prisoners, one of which is actually American Volksdeutsch: a U.S. citizen of German heritage who, at the war’s start, “returned to the Fatherland” to fight alongside his brethren.

While very small phenomena in the grand scheme of the war, such anomalies add some serious color and context to hindsight.