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Most scholars now think that WW II was caused by the outcome of WW I and basically a continuation of WW I. The treaty of Versailles at the end of WW I was felt by the Germans as deeply humiliating and saddled them with crippling 'repair' payments that kept them - and would have kept them - in poverty for a great number of years.

Hitler could become vastly popular by first offering an easy focus for German resentment (Versailles and the supposedly 'international Jewry" behind it) and later by pulling the Allies' noses by easily retaking Allied-occupied German territory, by realizing the "Anschluss" with Austria that the Allies had forbidden in 1919, and by conquering parts of neighboring countries without the Allies doing anything to protect them despite the treaties they had with those countries.

Hitler's mistake was that he thought he could go on doing that without the Allies doing anything in return. So he invaded Poland, but then found that the Allies finally had enough and declared war, starting WW II.

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