World War II (Earth-8998)

"We are going to win this war because we have the best men. And they, personally, will escort Adolf Hitler to the gates of Hell."

- - Chester Phillips

World War II, or the Second World War, also abbreviated WWII, was the second global conflict that waged from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts begun sooner. It was notable for involving the vast majority's of Earth's nations, including the great powers, which ultimately led to the creation of two parties: the Allies and the Axis. Millions of people were killed during the war, and simultaneously, many advanced weapons and researches were conducted during the conflict, with the Axis conquering most of Asia and Europe.

The greatest response of the Allies for the Axis was the creation of seemingly the world's first super soldier, Captain America, who became a symbol of hope, freedom and justice through not only Allied regions, but to the whole world. The war went to even more violent routes when the former Nazi SS Colonel Hans Landa, the Red Skull, defected alongside his HYDRA division from the Third Reich in order to start their own pursuit of full global ramifications. The war ended with the pivotal yet phyrric victory of the Allies, who ultimately destroyed the Axis, and, seemingly, HYDRA as well.

The Rise of Hitler
"So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own. You know, after the last war, they... My people struggled. They... they felt weak... they felt small. Then Hitler comes along with the marching, and the big show, and the flags..."

- - Abraham Erskine to Steve Rogers The tremendous death, pain and devastation that came in the wake of World War I greatly destabilized Europe, the continent paying a heavy price for the war. World War II would grow out from the many issues left from the former conflict. Notably, economic and political instability in Germany, as well as a ever-growing resentment and hate over the terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty aided Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi) Party into rising to power.

Third Reich
"Wagner's line of thought is intimately familiar to me. What is celebrated is not the Christian religion of compassion, but pure and noble blood...blood whose purity the brotherhood of initiates has come together to guard. A divisive process is taking place in terms of world history. The man who sees the meaning of life in conflict will gradually mount the stairs of a new aristocracy..."

- - Adolf Hitler

After managing to become Reich Chancellor in Germany, in 1933, Hitler appointed himself as the supreme leader, the Führer, in 1934. Growing obsessed with the notion that the "pure German race", called "Aryan" by himself were superior to all others, and that only through war they would gain the "Lebensraum" in order to expand, which meant the "living space".

In February 1934, Hitler attended one of the many Richard Wagner's operas through Germany, this time in the Deutsches Opernhaus in Berlin. While watching, he met the physcist known as Johann Schmidt, a renowed scientist and physicist whom told Hitler about his theories that the stories of Asgardians, the Nine Worlds o