living standards of a section of the Germans. This period
also created sub-human conditions of life for those who
were tortured by the racist regime. This was also followed
by heavy investment in armament industry to create further
employment. But this plan could be sustained only by going
on war with the neighbours. For this, Hitler followed an
aggressive foreign policy to recover the territories lost
by Germany after the First World War. Then by 1939, he
attacked Poland and as we saw earlier, this started off
the Second World War.

As the War proceeded, the Nazi regime started its
horrible programme of building the racial supremacy of
Germans by mass killings of minority communities.