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      • Throughout World War II, 950,000 Austrians fought for the Nazi German armed forces.
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  1. Throughout World War II, 950,000 Austrians fought for the Nazi German armed forces. Other Austrians participated in the Nazi administration, from Nazi death camp personnel to senior Nazi leadership ; the majority of the bureaucrats who implemented the Final Solution were Austrian.

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  3. 4 days ago · Australia - WWII, Pacific, Involvement: When war came again, however, the nation’s response was firm—some 30,000 Australians died in World War II (1938–45), and 65,000 were injured. From early in the war, the Royal Australian Air Force was active in the defense of Britain.

  4. 4 days ago · During the course of the war, hundreds of thousands of Austrians fought as German soldiers; a substantial number of Austrians served in the SS, the elite military corps of the Nazi Party. By the end of the war, approximately 250,000 Austrians had been killed or were missing in action.

  5. The Wehrmacht drafted more than 1.3 million Austrians between 1938 and 1945, 242,000 of whom never came back home. Austrians also served loyally as soldiers from Germany proper and were just as responsible for Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front.

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  6. Almost a million Australians, both men and women, served in the Second World War. They fought in campaigns against Germany and Italy in Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa, as well as against Japan in south-east Asia and other parts of the Pacific.

  7. Gavin Long, The final campaigns, Australia in the war of 1939-1945, Series 1 (Army), Vol. 7, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1963, p. 634. Army enlistments by States

  8. While the majority of the Australian military fought on the Western Front in France during World War I, relatively few Australians fought in Europe during World War II.

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