No, we do not pardon, we demand-vengeance!” On 18 September 1922, Adolf Hitler, the demobilised frontįighter, threw down a challenge to defeated Germany that he would realise seventeen years later: “It cannot be that two million Germans should have fallen in vain. The Second World War, five times more destructive of human life and incalculably more costly in material terms, was the direct outcome of the First. Goodwill found a voice tragic because the consequences of the first clash ended the lives of ten million human beings, tortured the emotional lives of millions more, destroyed the benevolent and optimistic culture of theĮuropean continent and left, when the guns at last fell silent four years later, a legacy of political rancour and racial hatred so intense that no explanation of the causes of the Second World War can stand without reference Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been broken at any point during the five weeks of crisis that preceded the first clash of arms, had prudence or common The First World War was a tragic and unnecessary conflict.
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