How could it happen, that continental Europe in the twentieth century became a Europe of the Dictatorships? It requires some effort to understand such processes. It is insufficient to observe merely the dictatorships and their mechanisms, rather one must also incorporate the seemingly harmless history leading up to that time and, above all, the transitions that took place. The book begins with a description of the historical situation after the First World War. Europe's brutalization through colonial wars and inter-European conflicts, carried out using means of mass extermination, led to...