<diacritize> When asked if he believed in the Devil , historian Jean Delumeau replied : How could I deny the power of evil when I see what is occurring and what has occurred since I was born : The second world war , with over 40 million victims ; Auschwitz and the death camps ; the genocide in Cambodia ; the bloody tyranny of the Ceausescu regime ; torture as a system of government in many places throughout the world . <yor>When asked if he believed in the Devil , historian Jean Delumeau replied : How could I deny the power of evil when I see what is occurring and what has occurred since I was born : The second world war , with over 40 million victims ; Auschwitz and the death camps ; the genocide in Cambodia ; the bloody tyranny of the Ceauşescu regime ; torture as a system of government in many places throughout the world . 