The COMPLETE Origin of World War II From the German Perspective | FULL COLOR Documentary
World War II has an official start date. But it has no single cause and no explanation that textbooks have dared to tell in full. The Treaty of Versailles did not merely punish Germany: it created the exact conditions that made a man like Hitler possible. Hyperinflation wiped out the savings of millions of families in weeks. The Great Depression destroyed six million German jobs in three years. Every catastrophe pushed more Germans toward the only movement that promised simple answers to complex questions.
But there are causes that history books do not include. Why the most powerful democracies in Europe had the opportunity to stop Hitler in nineteen thirty-six and chose not to use it. What really happened in Munich in nineteen thirty-eight when four leaders handed over an entire country without inviting its government to the meeting. And what Stalin and Hitler secretly signed in August nineteen thirty-nine, an agreement whose existence the Soviet Union denied for forty-four years.
There is a decision made in a Munich beer hall in nineteen twenty-three that changed the course of the century. There is a name that appears repeatedly in declassified archives as the man who convinced Hindenburg to appoint Hitler chancellor believing he could control him. And there is a cause that no victorious government has had any interest in explaining because it points directly at them.
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