The essence of warfare is dying not killing. Wars are undertaken to generate death. Homo Sapiens are the only animal the intentionally creates death, thereby distinguishing themselves from other animals.

Wars testify to the priority of states over individuals. Death (and injury) is produced to confirm the proposition that "lives" of nations are more significant lives of individual human beings.

A significant role of the state during the Twentieth Century was to compel human beings to die; to persuade human beings that dying for one's country was honorable and noble.

Each nation proclaimed it was "the greatest" and that the ideals it embodied were the truth. Historians are hired by universities to write books, proclaiming each nation was trying to "win."

The truth, however (the Final Solution) took the form of sacrificial death: proof of the pudding.