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he twentieth century was one of the darkest and most
deadly in all of human history. Vast amounts of blood
were spilled and people subjected to the most terrible
fear and oppression. Such dictators as Hitler, Stalin and
Pol Pot inflicted genocide on millions. Hitler had those whom he re-
garded as “useless” exterminated in the gas chambers. Hundreds of
thousands of people in many Western countries—from Great Britain
to Germany, from the USA to Sweden—were compulsorily sterilized
or left to die just for being sick, crippled or old. All over the world,
people were oppressed and exploited because of ruthless competi-
tion. Racism became the ideology of certain states, and some races
were not even regarded as human at all. Because of the conflicts and
