"Eh, Stalingrad?!"

Elena's expression was slightly stunned, and she immediately looked at the old wizard in front of her in disbelief.

Thanks to the ghost animal video that was popular in Elle in her previous life, she is too familiar with the pronunciation of this term, especially under this slightly German accent, Stalin, she will never hear it wrong.

"Wait, you don't want to say...... You wizards were also involved in World War II?!"

"No, it's us, wizard. ”

Grindelwald raised his finger and shook it, the expression on his face rather complicated.

"To be precise, that war was both the cause of the war in the wizarding world, and it can also be said that the war was a conflict that broke out along with the war in the wizarding world. When war engulfs the world, no one is immune, whether you are a Muggle or a wizard, you will inevitably be swept into it. ”

World War II, the largest world war in human history.

The war ranged from Europe to Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and more than 61 countries and regions with more than 2 billion people were involved in the war, covering an area of 22 million square kilometers.

And this data is just a vague statistic from the non-magical world.

If you count the wizarding wars that broke out before the official outbreak of World War II, and all the wizards and magical creatures involved in them, this number and scope of impact may need to be increased a little more.

However, in the wizarding world, the term "World War II" is not usually used to describe this war.

"The Sins of Grindelwald, that's the name of the war that preceded it. ”

Grindelwald glanced at Dumbledore beside him and shook his head rather self-deprecatingly.

"In the beginning, our goal was not to provoke a war, but to nip any crisis in the bud before the Muggles started a war, but by the time we came to our senses, everyone was already in the mire, and taking a step back was even more terrible than death. ”

"Around Stalingrad, it was the battlefield of the last and first decisive battle of wizards. ”

"Muggles and wizards were involved in that tragic battle, and the killing efficiency of wizards and Muggles was not much different on that battlefield of hundreds of thousands, until the ...... in the end"

As he said this, Grindelwald's cheek twitched, and he fell into a rare silence.

Elena, who obediently hugged her knees and curled up on the soft sofa to listen to the story, tilted her head curiously, looked at the original Dark Lord who was suddenly out of chapter, a trace of understanding flashed in her eyes, and subconsciously continued to ask.

"Until he was finally defeated by the righteous Soviet wizards and the Red Army, and then retreated all the way to Germany, and finally fought Professor Dumbledore at the top of the Forbidden City, and was defeated by a single move, and finally closed himself off and was grounded in Newmondgard Castle for decades?"

"Of course not! In fact, although the war was not a magical one, the Soviets won. ”

Grindelwald glanced at the white-haired dumplings with a strange face, shook his head again, and let out a long sigh.

"Those fools focused too much on supporting the Muggle battlefield, so on the battlefield of the wizarding world, we won the school of magic built next to Stalingrad and turned it into ruins, and the entire Soviet wizarding world was buried there. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, there were only a handful of young wizards left in the Soviet Union, so much so that they could only rely on translating the most basic magic textbooks from the British side to learn even the most basic magic spells. ”

After that war, the Soviet wizarding world became almost a joke.

Even after more than forty years of cultivation, they have only just breathed a sigh of relief, and thanks to their non-magical government's policy of vigorously encouraging childbearing, with a huge population base, the chances of giving birth to a wizard will eventually be higher.

"Not only the Soviet Union, but also the British magical community, no, to be precise, the entire European magical civilization, has suffered a very serious decline because of the decades of war! ”

Hearing Grindelwald take the initiative to talk about the topic, Dumbledore continued in a heavy tone.

As the headmaster of a magic school, a man who ended the war with his own hands, the only thing he regrets is that he didn't act sooner, maybe the situation wouldn't have ended up being so out of control.

Muggles' ever-evolving weapons, combined with the various war magics that wizards have developed over the millennia, have led to the pinnacle of cannibalism in a war where everyone has lost their minds.

Compared to those spells that were later included in the list of banned dark arts because of Voldemort's appearance.

The war magic that was born, improved, or used on a large scale for the first time during World War II was almost all destroyed after the war, and both spells and records were completely erased, and the only ones who still had memories of war magic were the only ones like them, except for the survivors of the year.

It turned out to be a wise choice indeed.

At least later, when Tom Riddle incarnated as Voldemort and attempted to impose a reign of terror in the British region, his greatest frustration was that he couldn't find the powerful war magic that he used to have, unless he created his own spells from scratch, the magic they could use was only an enhanced version of the human level.

"Is that so? No wonder ......"

Silently listening to Grindelwald and Dumbledore tell the story of the year, Elena nodded thoughtfully, and the confusion that had been haunting her heart was finally solved.

I have to say that since coming into contact with Grindelwald, she has been very confused about the current state of the wizarding world.

It stands to reason that the wizarding world, which has unscientific medical security, strong self-sufficiency, and closed and stable, has no reason to be as sparsely populated and homogeneous as it is now, and Voldemort is not so destructive.

And the most bizarre of these is the unreasonable demographics of the wizarding world.

The distribution of the population in the wizarding world presents a very strange situation, the vast majority of wizards are under the age of sixty, once they are over sixty years old, there will be an extremely terrible age gap, which is not reasonable, as the theoretical lifespan of wizards is about half higher than that of Muggles, it is impossible that there is no aging population.

If you think about it, the eldest of the Malfoy family is Lucius Malfoy, the Black family is only a Sirius Black left, even the leafy Weasley family, the older generation of wizards is pitiful, and most of them are still witches, and as for the Gaunt family, well, this one was wiped out because of his own death......

On the other hand, Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout are exceptionally long-lived, living to the age of seventy or eighty without illness, but it is difficult to find people of the same age outside the confines of Hogwarts Castle.

It's not just a huge gap in the age group, as a Hogwarts student and a long-time Harry Potter fan, Elena has always had a lot of doubts long before the crossing, and now they have all been solved.

For example......

The first chapter, Goo ~ new book for refills ~

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