Ten Little Known Facts About WW II-- Part 2: Tsars, Missing Nazi Uranium, a Volcano and the French Bretons

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7.  TSAR BORIS III OF BULGARIA DIED

But the question is, who killed him?   Tsar Boris III had done a lot for Bulgaria, rebuilding it after World War I.  He kept his country neutral during WW II.  But, he died in 1943, apparently poisoned.  

6.  MISSING NAZI URANIUM

The Nazis were getting close to harnessing nuclear energy.  But, no one today knows exactly what happened to several hundred Nazi uranium cubes.

5.  THE US AIR FORCE VS. AN UNDEFEATABLE ANCIENT ENEMY

And that ancient foe was none other than Mt. Vesuvius.  The Allies occupied the region around it in mid-March 1944, when it erupted again.

4.  BRETON SEPARATISTS WERE NAZI COLLABORATORS AND RESISTANCE FIGHTERS

From the French region called Brittany near where D-Day took place.

--GreGen