Description
Most Western historians consider the rise of Nazism the catalyst leading to WWII while other world historians site the English-German arms race as the main cause leading to the deadliest war in world history. This complex subject will be explored in this lecture using a detailed timeline of the real events and stories of the people who lived through this nightmare of destruction. Recently released declassified documents fill in some of the pieces to form a more complete big picture of pre-wartime history.