The fact that this war was only part of a still greater war could not diminish its epic size, its overwhelming agony, or its pervasive consequences. This war was not only the greatest but probably the ugliest in human history. The war in the Pacific is, in some respects, more savage. But the war which swept over almost the whole of Europe, much of Africa and some of the Near East, over the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic, was fought by the peoples who cradled 20th-Century civilization. It was fought with a brutality which exceeded that of primitive times.
Revolution Put Down.
This war was a revolution against the moral basis of civilization. It was conceived by the Nazis in conscious contempt for the life, dignity and freedom of individual man and deliberately prosecuted by means of slavery, starvation and the mass destruction of noncombatants' lives. It was a revolution against the human soul. Not Churchill, nor Stalin, nor Roosevelt, nor any other Allied leader ever really articulated the nature of this war. It was more nearly named by Nazis in such outpourings as Mein Kampf .