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  World War II   was one of the most devastating wars that lasted from 1934 to 1945 . The principal belligerents were the Axis power-German, Italy, and Japan and the Allies- France, Great Britain, the United States, the soviet union, and to a lesser extent China. One can’t consider the Holocaust without wondering about the source of Adolf Hitler ’s hatred for the Jews. In “Mein Kampf,” published in two volumes, in 1925 and 1926, Hitler himself explains that he had no special feelings about Jews before he moved to Vienna, in 1908, and that even then, initially, he thought favorably of them. He saw the light only after Germany’s loss in World War I, for which he held the Jews responsibly. During the second half of the 19th century, the Jews’ emancipation throughout most of Europe led to their increasing integration into society and into the modern economy. Hitler’s political theories blended with increasingly technical racial theories that imagined the Jews and other groups li...