TRUE or FALSE

Think you know about World War II? Take our quiz and discover how good your knowledge really is by sorting true statements from the false. Answers below

1Special agent Nancy Wake killed a Schutzstaffel - or SS soldier - with her bare hands during a WWII raid.

2The Nazis didn’t invent the swastika. It’s thought to be an early Asian sign and means ‘well-being’.

3As a teenager, Hitler was obsessed with a girl of Jewish origins, Stefanie Isak, and reportedly considered kidnapping her.

4Roald Dahl attended Camp X– a secret spy school created by allied forces.

5During World War II, British soldiers received a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day.

6Many Americans avoided using the German-sounding word ‘hamburger’ by renaming it ‘liberty steak’.

7Max Heiliger was the fictitious name the SS used to establish a bank account through which they laundered valuables of victims in concentration camps.

8 9Japan and Russia have not yet signed a peace treaty to formally end WWII.

Hitler had a German Shepherd dog named Blondi, who appeared with his master in Nazi propaganda.

10In 1942, American DJs were banned from taking listener requests in case enemy spies used them to pass secret messages.