The wars and the killings started by the Axis began in 1931 in Manchuria and carried on in full flood until at least 1946-1947, as it played itself out in a series of local but bloody civil wars or wars of national liberation.
At least fifteen full years of non-stop bloodletting somewhere in the world, directed or started by the Axis.
Despite all of this, what makes the very much shorter six years of WWII (September 2 1939 -September 2 1945) truly unique in humanity's long run of war and violence is not the record number of people who died, nor the attempted industrial mass murder of all Jews, all Romas and all Slavs.
At least fifteen full years of non-stop bloodletting somewhere in the world, directed or started by the Axis.
Despite all of this, what makes the very much shorter six years of WWII (September 2 1939 -September 2 1945) truly unique in humanity's long run of war and violence is not the record number of people who died, nor the attempted industrial mass murder of all Jews, all Romas and all Slavs.
