With many cliches, there is another cliche suggesting the opposite.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.

Germany may have started two World Wars, but the causes of, reasons given, and the fighting methods were quite different because Hitler and the Allies remembered WW1 and were determined not to repeat it. At best, the two world wars only rhymed.