Causes of World War II

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    Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920’s and 1930’s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother’s keeper.
    Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

    This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
    And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro;
    Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    Stiller ... took part in the Spanish Civil War ... It is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined—a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.
    Max Frisch (1911–1991)