You have World War I, where roughly 17 million people die. In World War II, 50 to 80 million people die, some directly because of the conflict, but many because of lack of access to food and famine. The Chinese are particularly hit. Over 15 million died during the Japanese occupation of China. This idea of genocide comes about. First, with the Armenian Genocide in the declining Ottoman Empire, where over a million people are believed to have been killed. And then in World War II, you have the Holocaust, where six to 11 million people were killed, roughly 2 1⁄3 of the Jewish population in Europe and many others.