Assuming WW2 is World War II or the Second World War, it was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945.

The vast majority of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, fought as part of two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

Many participants threw their economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind this total war, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources.

Which is why World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in history; it resulted in an estimated 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians.

Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, massacres, and disease.

The causes of World War II are debated, but contributing factors included the rise of fascism in Europe.

Fascists took inspiration from sources as ancient as the Spartans for their focus on racial purity and their emphasis on rule by an elite minority.

The French Revolution was a major influence insofar as the Nazis saw themselves as fighting back against many of the ideas which it brought to prominence, especially:
• liberalism,
• liberal democracy,
• racial equality.

On the other hand, fascism drew heavily on the revolutionary ideal of nationalism.

The prejudice of a "high and noble" ethnocultural self-designated culture as opposed to a "parasitic" culture of chosen minorities (core to Nazi racial views was the minority of Jewish origins popularizing the pseudoscience of the Semitic People), while other early forms of fascism concerned themselves with non-racialized concepts of nation.

Common themes among fascist movements include:
• authoritarianism,
• nationalism (including racial nationalism),
• hierarchy,
• elitism,
• militarism.

Other aspects of fascism such as its "myth of decadence", anti-egalitarianism and totalitarianism can be seen to originate from these ideas.

Fascism is a synthesis of totalitarianism and ultranationalism sacralized via a myth of national rebirth and regeneration, which Roger Griffin terms "Palingenetic Ultranationalism".
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