Near the end of World War II, after 50 million deaths, Churchill reflected that “if the allies at the peace table at Versailles had not imagined that the sweeping away of long-established dynasties was a form of progress, and if they had allowed a Hohenzollern, a Wittelsbach, and a Habsburg to return to their thrones, there would have been no Hitler,” who had come to power in a complete vacuum of generational order.[11]
