No matter how hard they tried – or perhaps because they tried – humans failed to build the earthly paradise. Instead, they repeatedly brought hell on Earth. That is exactly what Europeans did in the first half of the 20th century on their own continent, just as they had done in previous centuries on other continents. No one else is to blame. It was purely European barbarity, demonstrated by Europeans at the expense of other Europeans – often in the name of our continent. No one can truly understand what Europe was trying to do after 1945 without knowing the facts about that hell.

"One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics." Even if we set aside the objective difficulty of arriving at precise numbers, the scale is staggering. Let me tell you that about 18,000 people lost their lives in Bergen-Belsen in just one month, March 1945; that by the end of the war, there were nearly 8 million prisoners in forced labor camps in Germany; that around 93% of Düsseldorf's area was no longer habitable after the Allied bombings; or that in Belarus, 2 million people were lost from a pre-war population of 9 million, while another 3 million were forced to become refugees;