Seventy-five years since the outbreak of World War II - World Socialist Web Site
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Seventy-five years since the outbreak of World War II
1 September 2014
Today, September 1, 2014, marks the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The German invasion of Poland was followed two days later by the British and French declarations of war against the Third Reich.
The human and social catastrophe that began with the Nazi bombing of Warsaw ended six years later with the United States’ atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the intervening six years, between 80 and 90 million people were killed, and additional hundreds of millions of people were physically and emotionally crippled.