"The Holocaust was not a tragedy of the Jews but a tragedy of civilization in which the victims were Jews." -Deborah Lipstadt .
When the German's invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the world went to war for the second time in almost 30 years. Unbelievably, so soon after "the war that will end war", nations and their leaders had allowed another conflict to threaten the world. The scope of this new war was not yet apparent, the truth dawning; this one would last six years, involve more than two hundred countries, would cause millions of people to suffer, cost 55 million lives and material damage of some 3 billion dollars, it would affect the lives of three quarters of the world's population and influenced the lives of the majority of the worlds inhabitants to a large degree. Adolf Hitler, the powerful leader of Germany, and the contender of World War II, led the German Nazis world, to a goal that was to wipe out all of Jewish humanity. The power of one, in this case, led to many disasters, disasters that changed the world and all of humanity. .
It all started right after the end of the First World War, June 1919. In that same June, the Treaty of Versailles, a peace treaty was completed. At the end of the conference Germany lost territory and its armed forces were greatly reduced. It had to pay massive compensation for war damage and admit its guilt for causing the war. These terms caused great bitterness in Germany and sowed the seeds for future discord in Europe. Similar peace treaties that included Germany were the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the Locarno Treaty. No one wanted war, but I guess that didn't stop a Second World War from occurring. .
Nationalism slowly became the new "fad" in the 20th Century. Many new leaders became nationalist as a result of fascism, fascists as they were refered as. One leading German fascist was the one and only Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889.
