So they must be evaluated with a critical eye, as this information was being fed to Europe to depict the inhabitants of the New World as savage animals, justifying genocide. Yet there is some evidence of the practice among some North American Native Americans, mostly as a practice used against defeated enemies. Now the continent of Africa is not immune either, with wartime and starvation being the biggest reasons, although there are examples of it being used in magical ceremonies. Now in the 1970s, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was reputed to have practiced cannibalism himself. Europeans were not immune to the practice as well. We had cannibalism being used in Jamestown when there was starvation in 1609, and centuries later Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition was another example where cannibalism was being used out of desperation. World War II is filled with examples of cannibalism being used by Russians and Germans during the stage of Stalingrad, as well as by the Japanese in all of the fierce fighting that took place across the islands from New Guinea to Japan.