Homo homini lupus

"People enjoy the war, the peace is terrible."

That should go to the most horrible in fulfillment - something which K. Lowe treats here on 380 pages I was already known, but in this abundance is not known when reading, if one really wants to go on living after reading whether a just the sheer horror whether human nature grabs.

It is actually a miracle that Europe has ever been restored to civilized standards; In any case the author admits here for each nachlesbar with the myth that in May 1945 with the German defeat "peace, joy and pancakes" between the Pyrenees and Ural einkehrten - he describes it all:

the topography of the psychic devastation, the endless ethnic cleansing (which continued for years after the fall of Germany, only with other stakeholders), the purges in almost all post-war countries, the civil wars (Greece), the guerrilla wars (in the Baltics up in the fifties into continued), the incomprehensible cruelty (some of collaborators, but committed mostly civilians), the incomprehensible suffering of the civilian population, the onset of communist terror, for example in Romania, the heimgekehrenden Jews opposed beating hatred - you need very, very strong nervous for this book.

An appropriate subtitle would be Schopenhauer - Quote:

"One should look at the world as a kind of hell in which it is to gain a fireproof room."