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It's a long story reaching back to before WW1. The ultimate cause of WW2 was the Austrian Habsburg Empire, when it tried to assert it's authority on Serbia, resulting in an assassination and Austria calling on Germany to help it fight against the Russians (who backed Serbia). The main cause of WW2 was the "Treaty of Versailles", and the subsequent invasion and annexation of the Rhineland by the French in 1920 (not written into popular history books to save face for the French no doubt, but you can find information with google) when Germany could no longer pay the crippling war payments administered by England, America, Belgium, and France. This caused major food shortages which started a chain reaction of political and social upheaval, leading inevitably (and rightly so) to a need to take back what belonged to them in the first place. The leader at the time was unfortunately a little too extreme and went way past the expected path of simply making a stronger Germany. After all that murder, mayhem, and madness, what WW2 really teaches us is that we should never allow Politicians too much power, and never believe too strongly in their self promoting rhetoric and double talk.

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