101 Amazing Facts about The Second World War
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The Second World War started after Germany attacked Poland. Britain and France demanded the Germans withdraw from the territory they had occupied, but when they did not, on the 3rd of September 1939 Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared war.
Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany (there known as the Führer) wanted to take over other countries in Europe either by partnership or force.
Hitler was the head of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, which is most often referred to as the Nazi Party. He rose to power when people in Germany suffered terrible financial penalties as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, signed at the end of the First World War, which Germany had lost. The public increasingly looked up to a man who spoke of national pride, and who brought their country out of economic depression.
The Nazis held extreme racist beliefs, in particular that they were a ‘master race’ of people, pure Aryans (a word used to describe white people of European heritage). Much of their hate was targeted against Jewish people, initially taking their possessions and imprisoning them then later killing them in terrible numbers. This mass genocide is known as the Holocaust.
It is thought that up to seventy million people from all sides were killed in the conflict. Although more people are thought to have died in China’s Taiping Rebellion between 1851 and 1864, the Second World War is said to be the most destructive conflict in history, costing more money, damaging more property and causing more