Well, first, it proved the old Roman adage, homo homini lupus, man is a wolf to man. This is seen most clearly in the Holocaust, but all the statistics are staggering. More than a million Indian British subjects died, mainly due to famine that could have been avoided if the British had redistributed food. And their failure to do so helped convince Indians that the so-called superior civilization of the British was a sham. More than a million Vietnamese died, mainly due to famine. Four hundred eighteen thousand Americans. More than a million non-combatants in both Germany and Japan.