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.

Germany at last realized that they were losing the war. At this time the Russian troops had reached concentration camps in Poland, the Russians were ordered to bring back the prisoners and have them march in Germany, as embarrassment and for public torture. Those who survived the last march were placed in concentration camps inside Germany. There, the Allied troops found them- they were skeletons, starved and shrunken, with huge eyes starring out of swollen eye sockets. It was hard to believe that they once had been ordinary human beings. Some were too weak to rise from the wooden shelves the Nazis had supplied as beds. It was a very tragic and depressing ordeal.

"Jews were responsible for everything I did not like, including modern art, pornography and prostitution." – Adolf Hitler

On June 1944, the allied forces landed in France on the shores of Normandy. By midnight the Germans had lost the battle there, and the Allies had a firm foothold in Europe. In July the Russian troops stood on German soil in the west. Hitler’s world was slowly closing in around him. In one last separate attack, Hitler sent his troops into the forests of France, trying to separate the American and British armies. This was one of the fiercest and bloodiest Battle of the Second World War. All was over on January 16, 1945. No one really ‘won’ this battle, but Hitler’s army suffered heavy losses, from which the Germans never recovered.

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