Two dismaying facts that I have learned through interviewing was that in Europe, many soldiers wanted to fight in the Pacific, "because it was easy to tell who the enemies were". Most had no idea of the holocaust until they encountered the horrible conditions of the Concentration Camp survivio. 

            

The other fact was the racist treatment of minority soldiers in WW11. Such as in the interview I had with the sailor who was in the Port Chicago Disaster. He joined to become a sailor and ended up being an untrained stevedor loading ammunition and bombs onto ships at Port Chicago, Ca. Being rushed by all white officers, one night, a terrible explosion happened that killed almost 400 mostly African- American "sailors". 

The other interview that revealed this racism was with Rev. Dan. He was drafted and sent to New Geanue where he was treated terribly) by other soldiers. Even a "Tokyo Rose" got involved, cognizant of racism, she urged them to desert. This racism was somewhat cleared up  in the invasion of the Philippines when "McArthur" locked up some of the racist bullies. Rev. Dan survived all this and became an ordained AME minister at the famous Emanuel Church in Charleston where the shootings occurred. One of the murdered was a child in his church, that he built in a nearby rural area called Jacksonboro, S. C.