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![Stretcher bearers carry a wounded soldier during the Battle of the Somme. [LCID: 2453747]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/647ba4e2-8fc6-4340-9d0c-21dd535eaf42.jpg)
第一次世界大战（1914-1918年）是二十世纪第一次大规模国际冲突。这次战争的创伤深刻地影响了大屠杀期间领导者和平民的态度和行动。战争及其分裂性的和平协议所产生的影响在随后数十年间持续发酵，不仅催生了第二次世界大战，还为在战火掩护下发生的种族灭绝提供了借口。
![Women survivors huddled in a prisoner barracks shortly after Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz camp. [LCID: 31450b]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/8fdec1b8-47fa-40f1-9a27-06e7262bad5e.jpg)
![Blanka Rothschild holds one of her prewar family photographs. [LCID: athbr039]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/11721704-922d-4af9-8e09-16ab9e4123c5.jpg)
