I'm trying to understand a proof for a theorem that states conditions under which the group of primitive residual classes modulo $n$ is cyclic. This proof uses the following result attributed to Gauß: $ (1 + p)^{p^{\nu - 1}} \equiv 1 \pmod {p^\nu},\qquad(1 + p)^{p^{\nu - 1}} \not\equiv 1 \pmod {p^{\nu + 1}}, $ where $p$ is an odd prime and $\nu \in \mathbb{N}$.
This result is used to derive without further explanation the following incongruence $ (1 + p)^{p^{\nu - 2}} \not\equiv 1 \pmod {p^{\nu}} $ where $\nu \geq 2$.
Can somebody explain how one can obtain the second incongruence from the first one? It's probably something simple, but I'm just not seeing it at the moment. Thanks.