Under the shadow of the Second World War, Germany had started a genocidal
war. In this war, the mass murder of selected groups of innocent civilians of Europe
took place. The number of people killed included: about 60,000,000 Jews,
2,000,000 Gypsies, 10,000,000 Polish civilians, 70,000 Germans who were
considered mentally and physically disabled besides innumerable political opponents
or people of different religious faith. Nazis devised a horrifying means of killing
people. They killed thousands of people in gas chambers in various killing centers
like< Auschwitz.

Aggressive nationalism, militarism, imperialism, secret alliances were the
reasons for the second world also. Along with these, the special contexts for the
second world war were the following

At the end of World War I, the Conference on Peace took place in Versailles in
1919. This was the biggest conference of that time as it was attended by delegations
from 32 nations that covered three-fourths of the population of the world. The five
victorious powerful countries of the time, viz. USA, UK, France, Italy and Japan,
participated in this conference. But Socialist Russia and the defeated powers, for
example, Germany, Austria and Turkey, were not invited to the Conference. To
weaken Germany, the Treaty of Versailles imposed some territorial penalties and
military cuts on it. Firstly, Germany was asked to return its colonies in Africa
occupied in the 1880s and European areas like Alsace and Lorraine which they had
occupied from France in 1871. Secondly, it was asked to pull down its army strength
to 100,000 from 900,000 during World War I. It was also asked not to have