WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:16.380 The 20th century was the bloodiest age in all of world history. 00:18.060 --> 00:25.260 During this era, for the first time, humanity was introduced to the concept of a world war. 00:25.260 --> 00:33.240 Taken together, World Wars I and II resulted in a total of 65 million people losing their lives. 00:33.840 --> 00:38.520 About half of these casualties were civilians who had nothing to do with these wars. 00:39.360 --> 00:45.100 Children, defenseless women, and the elderly alike were massacred cruelly. 00:45.100 --> 00:57.200 So one might ask, how did the world find itself in the mists of such colossal insanity? 00:57.200 --> 01:12.740 How did people so easily sacrifice both their own nations and those of others? 01:15.200 --> 01:18.200 What sort of thought lay behind this cruelty? 01:18.200 --> 01:27.200 In this film, you can discover the answers. 01:27.200 --> 01:56.220 In this film, again, not pornography, but the 01:57.200 --> 02:18.180 wars have existed almost since the dawn of humanity itself competing political and economic 02:18.180 --> 02:21.800 interests led people to take arms against one another 02:21.800 --> 02:31.480 weapons and armies have developed hand-in-hand and so wars have grown ever more violent than destructive 02:31.480 --> 02:47.060 however until the 20th century wars took the form of front battles in which soldiers of two armies 02:47.060 --> 02:54.560 would meet on both sides of a battlefield and the fighting would revolve around this axis in these 02:54.560 --> 02:57.940 conflicts it was the soldiers alone who were killed 02:57.940 --> 03:20.500 but in the 20th century a new breed of war was born one targeting not only soldiers but also the masses 03:20.500 --> 03:28.300 of people the effects of such wars would be felt in not just a handful of countries but rather were 03:28.300 --> 03:35.300 like they had taken the entire world in their terrible maw 03:46.720 --> 03:51.300 throughout history war has inflicted great suffering and losses to society 03:51.300 --> 04:01.620 a number of prophets who were sent to the people as messengers warned them against this calamity and 04:01.620 --> 04:02.060 turmoil 04:02.060 --> 04:17.300 and to medyan we sent their brother shuaib he said my people worship god and look to the last day 04:17.300 --> 04:20.980 and do not act unjustly on earth corrupting it 04:20.980 --> 04:31.720 through the voice of their prophets the israelites made a promise to god not to shed blood 04:31.720 --> 04:38.680 and when we made a covenant with you not to shed your blood and not to expel one another from your homes 04:38.680 --> 04:41.280 you agreed and were all witnesses 04:41.280 --> 05:11.260 in nineteenth-century europe colonialism was widespread european power was 05:11.260 --> 05:15.940 in the past four and it was just great britain and france had established colonial empires in 05:15.940 --> 05:17.180 all four corners of the world 05:17.180 --> 05:23.180 germany which had established its political unity later than other countries was striving to become 05:23.180 --> 05:26.000 a forerunner in this race 05:26.000 --> 05:33.000 by the beginning of the twentieth century interest based relations had split europe into two opposing poles 05:33.000 --> 05:40.760 britain france and russia were on one side and germany and the austria hungarian empire 05:40.760 --> 05:50.520 Empire ruled by the Habsburgs of German origin were on the other. 05:50.520 --> 05:56.640 The tension between these two groups escalated with each passing day, and finally an assassination 05:56.640 --> 06:00.720 in 1914 provided the spark for war. 06:00.720 --> 06:06.160 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, was 06:06.160 --> 06:17.160 killed by Serbian nationalists who sought to curb the empire's influence in the Balkans. 06:17.160 --> 06:22.980 Within a very short period of time, provocations following on the heels of this incident pulled 06:22.980 --> 06:26.200 the entire European continent into war. 06:26.200 --> 06:30.280 First, Austria-Hungary declared war against Serbia. 06:30.280 --> 06:39.600 Russia, a traditional ally of the Serbians, then declared war against Austria-Hungary. 06:39.600 --> 06:46.360 Then one after another, Germany, Britain and France entered the war. 06:46.360 --> 06:56.000 The fuse had been lit. 06:56.000 --> 07:01.920 Before the war had even begun, the German general staff had drawn up a plan and decided to take 07:01.920 --> 07:05.500 control of France through a sudden attack. 07:05.500 --> 07:15.000 To achieve this aim, the Germans entered Belgium and later crossed the border into France. 07:15.000 --> 07:19.900 Responding quickly, the French army stopped the Germans on the banks of the River Marne and 07:19.900 --> 07:22.380 started a counteroffensive. 07:22.380 --> 07:41.160 Although both armies suffered serious losses, no progress on the battlefront was to be found. 07:41.160 --> 07:46.180 Both the German and French soldiers hid in trenches in order to protect themselves. 07:46.180 --> 07:52.780 As the result of a series of attacks stretching over several months, some 400,000 French soldiers 07:52.780 --> 07:54.360 were killed. 07:54.360 --> 08:01.560 The death toll of German soldiers reached 350,000. 08:01.560 --> 08:07.460 Trench warfare became the main strategy of World War I. 08:07.460 --> 08:27.220 Over the next few years, soldiers practically lived in these trenches. 08:27.220 --> 08:30.320 Life there was difficult in the extreme. 08:30.320 --> 08:35.660 Soldiers lived under the constant threat of being bombarded, and they constantly faced extreme 08:35.660 --> 08:40.860 stress and fear. 08:40.860 --> 08:46.820 The bodies of those who died had to remain in these places, and soldiers had to sleep next 08:46.820 --> 08:58.100 to the corpses. 08:58.100 --> 09:07.480 When it rained, the trenches overflowed with mud. 09:07.480 --> 09:12.760 More than 20 million soldiers who fought in World War I suffered horrific conditions in 09:12.760 --> 09:14.400 these trenches. 09:14.400 --> 09:19.080 And most of them died there. 09:19.080 --> 09:25.800 Within a few weeks of its being established by a 1914 German attack, the war's western front 09:25.800 --> 09:28.680 was essentially fixed in a stalemate. 09:28.680 --> 09:33.720 The soldiers burrowed in these trenches were trapped at a distance of only a few hundred meters 09:33.720 --> 09:35.620 away from each other. 09:35.620 --> 09:51.620 The attack launched in an effort to end this stalemate was going to cost more lives. 09:51.620 --> 10:00.740 At the beginning of 1916, Germans developed a new plan to break through the western front. 10:00.740 --> 10:06.140 Their plan was to suddenly attack the city of Verdun, which was considered the pride of 10:06.140 --> 10:08.140 the French. 10:08.140 --> 10:13.940 The goal of the attack was not to win the war, but rather to inflict great losses on the French 10:13.940 --> 10:22.800 army and so weaken their resistance. 10:22.800 --> 10:29.000 German chief of staff, Balkenheim, calculated that every German soldier was going to single-handedly 10:29.000 --> 10:38.320 kill three French soldiers. 10:38.320 --> 10:41.720 The attack began on February 21. 10:41.720 --> 10:47.720 German commanders ordered their soldiers to get out of their trenches, but every soldier 10:47.720 --> 10:57.720 that did so was dead or dying in about three minutes. 10:57.720 --> 11:04.120 Despite attacks that went on for months on end, the Germans failed to capture Verdun. 11:04.120 --> 11:14.280 Taken together, the two sides lost about a million soldiers. 11:14.280 --> 11:20.680 And for that effort, the front line nudged 12 kilometers. 11:20.680 --> 11:36.600 One million people died for the sake of a dozen kilometers. 11:36.600 --> 11:43.120 The British retaliated against Germany's attack on Verdun with the Battle of the Somme. 11:43.120 --> 11:53.220 British factories produced hundreds of thousands of artillery shells. 11:53.220 --> 11:58.780 General Douglas Haig's plans called for the British army to rain down continuous bombardment 11:58.780 --> 12:03.400 for a full week, followed by an infantry attack. 12:03.400 --> 12:08.960 Many believed that they would advance 14 kilometers on the first day alone, and then shatter all 12:08.960 --> 12:19.220 the German lines within a single week. 12:19.220 --> 12:22.260 The attack began on June 1. 12:22.260 --> 12:27.720 British artillerymen attacked German lines for one week without let-up. 12:27.720 --> 12:33.220 At the end of that week, British officers ordered their soldiers to climb out of their trenches. 12:33.220 --> 12:52.540 However, during the bombardment, the German soldiers had sat tight in their deep trenches and 12:52.540 --> 12:57.340 so hadn't been destroyed, foiling the British plan. 12:57.340 --> 13:02.900 As the British soldiers moved across the front lines, the German soldiers opened up on them 13:02.900 --> 13:04.900 with their machine guns. 13:04.900 --> 13:09.340 A total of 20,000 British soldiers died in the first few hours of the battle. 13:09.340 --> 13:16.340 In the darkness of that night, the field between two fronts was filled with tens of thousands of dead bodies as well as injured soldiers trying to drag themselves back. 13:16.340 --> 13:23.340 The battle of the Somme lasted not for the two weeks that General Haig had planned on, but rather for five months. 13:23.340 --> 13:24.340 These months were nothing but massacres. 13:24.340 --> 13:30.340 Generals insistently sent wave after wave of their soldiers to a certain death. 13:30.340 --> 13:37.340 At the end of the battle, the sides between themselves had lost a total of 900,000 men. 13:37.340 --> 13:42.340 The battle of the Somme lasted not for the two weeks that General Haig had planned on, but rather for five months. 13:42.340 --> 13:45.340 These months were nothing but massacres. 13:45.340 --> 13:46.340 The front moved only 11 kilometers. 13:46.340 --> 13:47.340 These soldiers were sacrificed for a mere 11 kilometers. 13:47.340 --> 14:00.340 These soldiers were sacrificed for a mere 11 kilometers. 14:00.340 --> 14:16.340 Both sides had many more attacks during World War I. 14:16.340 --> 14:21.340 And each one of these attacks was a massacre in itself. 14:21.340 --> 14:28.340 Three battles took place in Belgium's town of Ypres alone. 14:28.340 --> 14:35.340 Some half a million soldiers died only in the third battle. 14:35.340 --> 14:38.340 Each attack had the same result. 14:38.340 --> 14:43.340 Thousands of lives lost only to advance for a handful of kilometers. 14:58.340 --> 15:06.340 This terrible war, which had no good cause, claimed the lives of countless innocents. 15:06.340 --> 15:13.340 Many people lost their relatives or had to abandon their homes. 15:13.340 --> 15:26.340 The ultimate causes behind this social catastrophe were political ambitions and the interests of certain ideological circles. 15:26.340 --> 15:35.340 Promoting corruption, which is caused by the worldly ambitions of those who deny God, is forbidden in the Koran. 15:35.340 --> 15:45.340 God forbids people to cause corruption on the earth. 15:45.340 --> 15:48.340 Do not corrupt the earth after it has been put right. 15:48.340 --> 15:50.340 Call on Him fearfully and eagerly. 15:50.340 --> 15:54.340 God's mercy is close to the good-doers. 15:54.340 --> 16:15.340 God's mercy is close. 16:15.340 --> 16:21.340 World War I ushered in the first appearance of a host of deadly phenomena. 16:21.340 --> 16:30.340 One of these was that war began targeting not only armies, but also civilians. 16:30.340 --> 16:41.340 The first bombardment aimed at civilian populations was a 1915 attack on Britain by a German Zeppelin. 16:41.340 --> 16:49.340 The bombs hurled from these Zeppelins took the lives of many innocents. 16:49.340 --> 17:00.340 The German submarine U-boats began a campaign of firing on civilian ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean. 17:00.340 --> 17:10.340 On May 7, 1915, the world's biggest transatlantic ship, the Lusitania, was sunk just off the coast of Ireland by a U-boat attack. 17:10.340 --> 17:28.340 Out of the Lusitania's 2,000 passengers, a total of 1,195 people drowned or died in the attack. 17:28.340 --> 17:32.340 Another disaster of the war was chemical weapons. 17:32.340 --> 17:43.340 Poison gas, a weapon first used by the French and later also by the Germans, led to the agonizing death of thousands of soldiers. 17:43.340 --> 17:46.340 Many soldiers were blinded by the gas. 17:54.340 --> 17:59.340 And armies had to resort to issuing gas masks as a protective measure. 17:59.340 --> 18:09.340 Civilians, too, were given gas masks to protect them from the often deadly menace. 18:13.340 --> 18:24.340 In 1918, World War I finally drew to a close after four years of pointless attacks at the hands of the British, French and German armies. 18:24.340 --> 18:36.340 But this peace, declared at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month, wasn't going to bring happiness to anyone. 18:36.340 --> 18:52.340 Hundreds of thousands of soldiers remained handicapped. 18:52.340 --> 19:02.340 Others proved unable to overcome the psychological impact of war after living in these trenches full of mud, dirt and dead bodies. 19:02.340 --> 19:17.340 The form of trauma known as shell shock was very common among war veterans, and it caused its sufferers to undergo fits of intense fear and shaking. 19:17.340 --> 19:24.340 The fear of being bombed, which they had lived with every day for four years on end, was engraved in their brains. 19:24.340 --> 19:40.340 Some patients felt compelled to go hide themselves at the mere mention of the word bomb. 19:40.340 --> 19:47.340 Some veterans even felt terror grip them whenever they saw a uniform. 19:47.340 --> 20:05.340 Tens of thousands of soldiers also lost one or more limbs in this war. 20:05.340 --> 20:27.340 So legion were the ranks of soldiers whose eyes, chins or noses were disfigured during the bombings that special masks were invented in Europe to mask their scarred faces. 20:27.340 --> 20:34.340 The great pain inflicted by World War I was also reflected in the fine arts. 20:34.340 --> 20:38.340 Works of postwar art depicted pain and insanity. 20:38.340 --> 20:53.340 These works reflected not only the psychologies of the artists, but also that of the entire generation. 20:53.340 --> 21:02.340 This generation, which felt the impact of the war's misery so deeply, was later dubbed the Lost Generation. 21:02.340 --> 21:09.340 As we have seen, this generation is the greatest generation. 21:09.340 --> 21:31.340 As we have seen, this generation is the greatest generation. 21:31.340 --> 21:37.340 As we have seen, war is a great agent of cruelty which has no benefit for people or society. 21:37.340 --> 21:46.340 It is a social catastrophe which brings forth great pain and inflicts deep wounds on people which are long in healing, if they can. 21:46.340 --> 21:54.340 God, on the other hand, has instructed people to steer clear of wars and to make peace prevail. 21:54.340 --> 22:07.340 God gives good news to those who commit good deeds. 22:07.340 --> 22:15.340 That abode of the hereafter, we grant it to those who do not seek to exalt themselves in the earth or to cause corruption in it. 22:15.340 --> 22:21.340 The successful outcome is for those who do their duty. 22:21.340 --> 22:28.340 Would we make those who believe and do right actions the same as those who cause corruption on the earth? 22:28.340 --> 22:34.340 Would we make those who do their duty the same as the desolate? 22:34.340 --> 22:53.340 Would we make those who do their duty the same as the desolate? 22:53.340 --> 23:09.860 So, what was the cause of this disaster which transformed Europe into an ocean of love? 23:09.860 --> 23:15.140 Why did the leaders of powerful countries push their nations into such a meaningless 23:15.140 --> 23:22.300 pit of death? 23:22.300 --> 23:28.520 Before the war, many people thought that such a war would be very beneficial and even that 23:28.520 --> 23:30.760 it was necessary. 23:30.760 --> 23:43.900 Many people welcomed the war and were overjoyed when war was declared. 23:43.900 --> 23:50.820 Leaders were proud to send off their soldiers to the battlefields. 23:50.820 --> 23:58.040 The main cause of this great mistake was their belief in a concept, namely, Darwinism. 23:58.040 --> 24:01.040 American historian Thomas Knapp explains this as follows. 24:01.040 --> 24:08.260 The war itself was not a surprise. 24:08.260 --> 24:14.260 It had been, in fact, anticipated in wide European circles in the decade or so before 1914. 24:14.260 --> 24:22.600 There's even a fair amount of evidence to show that the number of Europeans on all sides welcomed 24:22.600 --> 24:24.480 the war. 24:24.480 --> 24:30.160 War was to be cleansing, exciting, rejuvenating. 24:30.160 --> 24:35.480 Educational systems in most European countries were shot through with a kind of social Darwinist, 24:35.480 --> 24:45.700 collective mentality in which war was seen as exhilarating and ennobling. 24:45.700 --> 24:53.660 Social Darwinism was the application of Darwin's evolutionary theory to society. 24:53.660 --> 24:59.960 From this theory, which was later disproved, Darwin claimed that all creatures in nature were engaged 24:59.960 --> 25:02.660 in a struggle to survive. 25:02.660 --> 25:10.180 He claimed that humans were an advanced form of animal which moved ahead through conflict. 25:10.180 --> 25:15.720 This mistaken theory, which looked like a scientific fact to many people considering the technological 25:15.720 --> 25:22.460 level of that age, formed the foundation for World War I as well as a number of other social 25:22.460 --> 25:28.360 disasters. 25:28.360 --> 25:33.720 The diaries and personal correspondence of European leaders from that time show that they were 25:33.720 --> 25:39.540 influenced by social Darwinism. 25:39.540 --> 25:44.620 These leaders rejected the path of love and mercy-based morality which God had revealed 25:44.620 --> 25:51.260 to the people in favor of social Darwinism instead. 25:51.260 --> 26:03.260 For instance, General von Hutzendorf, the Austria-Hungarian chief of staff, wrote this in his post-war memoirs. 26:03.260 --> 26:08.940 Philanthropic religions, moral teachings and philosophical doctrines may certainly sometimes serve to weaken 26:08.940 --> 26:12.820 mankind's struggle for existence in its crudest form. 26:12.820 --> 26:17.360 They will never succeed in removing it as a driving motive of the world. 26:17.360 --> 26:21.700 It is in accordance with this great principle that the catastrophe of the World War came 26:21.700 --> 26:27.580 about as the result of the motive forces in the lives of states and peoples, like a thunderstorm 26:27.580 --> 26:40.960 which must by its nature discharge itself. 26:40.960 --> 26:49.940 Frederick von Bernhardi, another First World War general, also drew a link between war and the so-called evolutionary laws of nature. 26:49.940 --> 26:54.480 War is a biological necessity. 26:54.480 --> 26:57.980 It is as necessary as the struggle of the elements of nature. 26:57.980 --> 27:08.480 It gives a biologically just decision since its decisions rest on the very nature of things. 27:08.480 --> 27:17.020 In sum, World War I was caused by European rulers who believed that fighting, bloodshed, suffering and making others suffer 27:17.020 --> 27:20.480 were all part of the law of nature. 27:20.480 --> 27:31.480 It is Darwin's evolutionary theory which pushed an entire generation into these mistaken beliefs. 27:31.480 --> 27:46.020 The dark figure of Darwin lurks behind the curtain of war. 27:46.020 --> 27:54.440 However, contrary to Darwin's claims, humans are not animals that survive in order to do battle with each other. 27:54.440 --> 28:04.020 In the Qur'an, God has this to say about those who start wars. 28:04.020 --> 28:08.800 Each time they kindle the fire of war, God extinguishes it. 28:08.800 --> 28:11.640 They rush about the earth, corrupting it. 28:11.640 --> 28:13.440 God does not love corrupters. 28:24.440 --> 28:33.300 God created people, gave them a spirit that is unique among all other living things, and commanded 28:33.300 --> 28:36.860 them to lead a moral existence. 28:36.860 --> 28:43.560 This way of life requires love, fraternity, mercy and peace. 28:43.560 --> 28:49.600 Only if people obey this instruction can the world become a place of peace. 28:49.600 --> 28:59.420 The divine order that will bring peace and salvation to all humanity is expressed in the Qur'an as follows. 28:59.420 --> 29:06.320 And do good as God has been good to you, and do not seek to cause corruption in the earth. 29:06.320 --> 29:08.280 God does not love corrupters. 29:19.600 --> 29:23.000 God does not love corrupters. 29:23.000 --> 29:24.900 God does not love corrupters. 29:24.900 --> 29:28.300 God is always Do good to heal free Nazis, who espessily here. 29:28.300 --> 29:30.580 He глазube. 29:30.580 --> 29:33.800 So eventually that's three of them will fortune to walk back afterкам leads to death and kill. 29:33.800 --> 29:37.560 First people say they do not follow. 29:37.560 --> 29:39.760 And they will... 29:39.760 --> 29:45.840 The other people do not Excel teach my life 29:45.840 --> 29:47.660 Things they call Sapp нат�� chia 29:47.660 --> 29:57.660 World War I was the product of a thought system that assumed that fighting and bloodshed were 29:57.660 --> 30:07.660 an essential law of nature. 30:07.660 --> 30:12.660 Even after the war ended, this philosophy lived on. 30:12.660 --> 30:23.660 Because it did not die, it went on to plant the seed of an even larger, more terrifying war. 30:23.660 --> 30:33.660 Germany was at the center of this great threat. 30:33.660 --> 30:41.660 The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I imposed on Germany a very heavy financial burden of compensation. 30:41.660 --> 30:50.660 Even as the nation struggled to recover from the effects of the war, it began to fall into a serious economic crisis. 30:50.660 --> 30:54.660 Competing political groups took to fighting in the streets. 30:54.660 --> 31:01.660 In the midst of this chaotic atmosphere, a fanatical political movement began to rise. 31:01.660 --> 31:13.660 This was the Nazi party led by Adolf Hitler. 31:13.660 --> 31:20.660 The Naziism was nothing but an interpretation of social Darwinism. 31:20.660 --> 31:27.660 Hitler had already adopted the racial struggle to survive view, which was the basis of Darwin's theory. 31:27.660 --> 31:34.660 According to Hitler, the Aryan race of the German people was at the top rung of the evolutionary ladder, 31:34.660 --> 31:37.660 and it had the right to rule over other races. 31:37.660 --> 31:42.660 In order to make this view a reality, they needed another war. 31:42.660 --> 31:46.660 A war that would make Germany the ruler of the whole world. 31:46.660 --> 32:14.660 Brutal, ambitious leaders were leading this movement. 32:14.660 --> 32:21.660 The situation of these leaders was explained as follows in the Koran. 32:21.660 --> 32:33.660 When he holds the upper hand, he goes about the earth corrupting it, destroying people's crops and breeding stock. 32:33.660 --> 32:36.660 God does not love corruption. 32:36.660 --> 32:45.660 Then, is it to be expected of you, if you assumed power, that you will cause corruption in the earth and sever your ties of kinship? 32:45.660 --> 33:13.660 Naziism started another world war in 1939. 33:13.660 --> 33:19.660 Nazi armies occupied Poland through a sudden attack. 33:19.660 --> 33:23.660 Germany brought Poland to its knees in only three weeks. 33:23.660 --> 33:28.660 Poland's capital, Warsaw, was bombed mercilessly and many civilians died. 33:28.660 --> 33:47.660 The entire world was huddled in fear, waiting to see what the next target would be. 33:47.660 --> 33:51.660 The German general staff was making plans for new attacks. 33:51.660 --> 33:56.660 Meanwhile, another totalitarian power took the first step towards war. 33:56.660 --> 34:02.660 The Soviet Union ruled by Stalin's bloody dictatorship. 34:02.660 --> 34:12.660 Stalin and Hitler signed a non-aggression pact in August 1939. 34:12.660 --> 34:20.660 They reached an agreement to share Poland, but this was not to satisfy Stalin. 34:20.660 --> 34:27.660 With a sudden attack, the Red Army invaded the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. 34:27.660 --> 34:31.660 Then they moved towards the north and occupied Finland. 34:31.660 --> 34:35.660 This attack claimed over a quarter million lives. 34:35.660 --> 34:51.660 Hitler's troops occupied Denmark, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands. 34:51.660 --> 35:09.660 German armies entered France via Belgium in May 1940. 35:09.660 --> 35:24.660 Tens of thousands of civilians started fleeing their homes out of fear of Nazi violence. 35:24.660 --> 35:30.660 On June 13, German armies marched into the streets of Paris. 35:30.660 --> 35:34.660 Hitler posed for photographs in front of the Eiffel Tower. 35:34.660 --> 35:42.660 In the months to come, Germany went on to invade Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece. 35:43.660 --> 35:48.660 All of entire Europe was being crushed under Hitler's boots. 35:48.660 --> 35:54.660 Germany's largest plan for occupation was against one-time ally Russia. 35:55.660 --> 36:04.660 This plan, codenamed Operation Barbarossa, began with a sudden attack on June 22, 1941. 36:18.660 --> 36:28.660 The German army moved quickly, and within 12 weeks, they had invaded Kiev. 36:28.660 --> 36:32.660 One month later, they were at the outskirts of Moscow. 36:33.660 --> 36:40.660 The next three years witnessed the unfolding of a horrific war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. 36:40.660 --> 36:49.660 This conflict, which became the bloodiest war in all of history, claimed the lives of over 30 million people. 36:53.660 --> 37:00.660 Both of the sides fighting in this war, Nazism and Communism, committed terrible crimes against humanity. 37:00.660 --> 37:17.660 The ideologies fighting in this war were trying to realize their own plans and expectations, 37:17.660 --> 37:21.660 although they had no moral or humanitarian cause. 37:21.660 --> 37:30.660 Towards their ends, they allowed the killings of millions of people. 37:34.660 --> 37:39.660 Supporting such cruelty, which recognizes no boundaries, is strictly forbidden in the Koran. 37:39.660 --> 37:57.660 Do not obey the orders of the profligate, those who corrupt the earth and do not put things right. 37:57.660 --> 37:58.660 You will be divided by the Nazi, both the ruling of war. 37:58.660 --> 37:59.660 You will do some woolly prey. 37:59.660 --> 38:24.660 You will break it obviously, but you will break it quite a bit. 38:24.660 --> 38:31.300 world war ii was more than just a war it was also a concerted effort to commit massacres 38:31.300 --> 38:40.980 and genocide this initiative was based on hitler's racist living space policy 38:40.980 --> 38:58.260 he claimed that germany's current territory was not enough for the german people 38:58.260 --> 39:04.740 and that the aryan race was being squeezed on this land he thus argued that they had to occupy the 39:04.740 --> 39:11.700 eastern european countries and turned these places into lebensraum or living space for germans 39:13.220 --> 39:18.580 the tens of millions of people already living on these lands faced cruel massacres 39:19.940 --> 39:25.780 the nazi armies perpetrated enormous massacres in every region they occupied in eastern europe 39:34.740 --> 39:44.020 so 39:44.020 --> 40:10.520 In particular, they carried out wantonly merciless acts against Jews, Gypsies, Poles, and Slavs, 40:10.520 --> 40:19.520 groups they saw as inferior to them. Special Nazi SS units, formed especially to carry out these massacres, 40:19.520 --> 40:25.520 started killing all the groups they targeted, above all, the Jews. 40:29.520 --> 40:36.520 All the occupied areas were thick with the bodies of the dead and survivors grieving over them. 40:40.520 --> 40:47.520 Clergymen and places of worship were favorite targets of the Nazis. 40:47.520 --> 40:54.520 They burned and destroyed all the churches and killed people of faith. 40:54.520 --> 41:01.520 Clergymen and places of worship were favorite targets of the Nazis. 41:01.520 --> 41:07.520 They burned and destroyed all the churches and killed people of faith. 41:07.520 --> 41:19.520 The Nazis' cruelty was on full show in their concentration camps. 41:19.520 --> 41:26.520 Jews, Gypsies, prisoners of war, and Catholic clergymen were made to toil like slaves. 41:26.520 --> 41:33.520 These camps were turned into slaughterhouses for human beings. 41:33.520 --> 41:44.520 Millions of innocent men, women, and children were cruelly murdered in systems designed to kill people en masse. 41:44.520 --> 41:59.520 When the camps were liberated, the Allies were greeted by tens of thousands of dead bodies side by side with prisoners waiting at death's door. 41:59.520 --> 42:06.520 In the Nazi concentration camps, a total of 11 million innocent people lost their lives. 42:06.520 --> 42:12.520 By 1943, it had become clear that the Nazis were going to lose the war. 42:12.520 --> 42:18.520 In Stalingrad, Hitler's army suffered a huge defeat at the hands of Soviet forces. 42:18.520 --> 42:25.520 After this disaster, Germans also lost another battle in the Kursk region, 42:25.520 --> 42:29.520 an event known as the greatest tank battle in history. 42:29.520 --> 42:48.520 defeat was now inevitable. 42:48.520 --> 42:53.520 But the Nazis, even as they withdrew, continued their slaughter. 42:53.520 --> 42:58.520 Acting under Hitler's orders, they laid waste to all the areas they passed through 42:58.520 --> 43:02.520 and killed civilians. 43:02.520 --> 43:08.520 German armies left behind millions of dead bodies and survivors grieving for their relatives. 43:28.520 --> 43:35.520 When the Allied armies reached Berlin, the downfall of Nazism was inevitable. 43:43.520 --> 43:49.520 However, the Red Army troops which entered Berlin were representatives of another ideology of violence. 43:49.520 --> 43:57.520 In the years to come, it became all too clear that Stalin's armies were no less cruel and violent than Hitler's. 43:57.520 --> 44:04.520 About the same number of people came to perish in Stalin's camps. 44:04.520 --> 44:12.520 In the areas they occupied, Stalin's soldiers committed massacres similar to the atrocities of Nazi soldiers. 44:12.520 --> 44:19.520 The insanity known as World War II claimed the lives of 55 million people. 44:19.520 --> 44:25.520 The world has borne witness to another satanic rite of bloodshed. 44:25.520 --> 44:26.520 In the years of bloodshed. 44:26.520 --> 44:28.520 In the years of bloodshed. 44:28.520 --> 44:30.520 In the years of bloodshed. 44:30.520 --> 44:35.520 memory ends 44:35.520 --> 44:37.520 by the stars during B 성공's death 44:37.520 --> 44:39.520 by the German army. 44:39.520 --> 44:43.520 In the years of war, the police inά so escapades females. 44:43.520 --> 44:48.520 And when gold ranked war front. 44:48.520 --> 44:50.520 After róż all the wars Bite shall be abandoned and blown. 44:50.520 --> 44:55.520 In the years of P Scheer temps 44:55.520 --> 45:08.600 However, God told the people to follow the way of peace and security, not evil. 45:14.180 --> 45:18.540 O you who believe, enter absolutely into peace. 45:19.200 --> 45:21.380 Do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. 45:22.260 --> 45:24.240 He is an outright enemy to you. 45:25.520 --> 45:54.960 The two world wars of the last century that we somehow lived through 45:54.960 --> 45:57.280 offer important lessons for humanity. 45:58.560 --> 46:04.600 Both of these tragedies showed that wars aren't merely a natural result of conflicts of interest 46:04.600 --> 46:09.760 between countries, because such conflicts can be resolved through diplomatic means. 46:10.760 --> 46:16.940 The real cause of war is the ideology of the people who make the decisions to pursue it. 46:16.940 --> 46:26.580 This is the ideology that regards fighting, bloodshed, and inflicting suffering as elements of human nature. 46:26.580 --> 46:28.900 This is the real cause of violence. 46:28.900 --> 46:36.220 This ideology is called social Darwinism. 46:36.220 --> 46:44.680 It is the belief that humans are a mere kind of animal that came into existence as a result of a string of coincidences. 46:44.680 --> 46:55.320 World War I was the product of European leaders who openly expressed their Darwinist views. 46:55.320 --> 47:02.320 Those responsible for world war II also had strong faith in social Darwinism. 47:02.320 --> 47:11.640 Hitler borrowed this racist ideology and his faith in wars from Darwinism. 47:11.640 --> 47:20.700 His biography, Mein Kampf, My Struggle, represents an adaptation of Darwin's struggle to survive. 47:20.700 --> 47:29.040 In his early years when he was working as a journalist, Italian fascist leader Mussolini was such a committed evolutionist 47:29.040 --> 47:33.700 that he even considered Darwin the greatest thinker of the 19th century. 47:33.700 --> 47:43.600 During his dictatorship, he maintained the same ideology and claimed that the existence of war was a law of evolution. 47:43.600 --> 47:52.600 Although trained as a priest during his youth, Stalin became an atheist after reading Darwin's Origin of Species. 47:52.600 --> 48:02.600 During his violent rule, he imposed the theories of Darwin and Lamarck, an even more primitive evolutionist, on the Russian people. 48:02.600 --> 48:10.600 For these dictators who saw humans as herds of animals, shedding blood was a mere biological process. 48:10.600 --> 48:17.600 Behind the murders, we find the dictators' faith in social Darwinism. 48:26.600 --> 48:32.600 There will be no peace on earth as long as social Darwinism continues to exist. 48:32.600 --> 48:39.600 This ideology invites nations and even whole civilizations to continuous conflict. 48:39.600 --> 48:46.600 According to social Darwinism, this is humanity's reason for existence. 48:55.600 --> 48:58.600 The reality, on the other hand, is very different. 48:58.600 --> 49:07.600 People exist not to fight with each other, but rather to serve God and lead their lives under His guidance. 49:07.600 --> 49:13.600 This requires love, forgiveness, and peace. 49:13.600 --> 49:25.600 When people come to realize this, there will be an end to war and tears, and peace and happiness will prevail. 49:25.600 --> 49:28.600 This is revealed in the Qur'an. 49:28.600 --> 49:37.600 God calls to the abode of peace, and He guides whom He wills to a straight path. 49:37.600 --> 49:43.600 Believers should cooperate with each other in order to spread friendship, fellowship, and unity. 49:43.600 --> 49:48.600 For if they do not, turmoil and corruption will always plague the world. 49:48.600 --> 49:53.600 The Qur'an lays out this vitally important truth. 49:53.600 --> 49:58.600 Those who disbelieve are the friends and protectors of one another. 49:58.600 --> 50:03.600 If you do not act in this way, that is, protect each other, 50:03.600 --> 50:07.600 there will be turmoil in the land and great corruption. 50:07.600 --> 50:13.600 For more information, visit www.fema.gov.au