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"Eh? Stalingrad?!"

Erina's expression faltered slightly, then she looked at the old wizard in front of her in disbelief.

Thanks to the ghost畜videos that were popular on Erie Island in her previous life, she was all too familiar with the pronunciation of this term—especially when it was pronounced with a slightly German accent. Stalingrad, she couldn't possibly mishear it.

"Wait, are you saying... you wizards also participated in the Second World War?!"

"No, it's—we, wizards."

Grindelwald raised a finger and wagged it, a rather complicated expression on his face.

"To be precise, that war was both the cause of the magical world war and, in a sense, a conflict that broke out alongside the magical world war. When the flames of war engulfed the entire world, no one could escape—whether you were a Muggle or a wizard, you would inevitably be drawn into it."

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

The war ranged from Europe to Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, involving more than 61 countries and regions and more than 2 billion people, with a combat area of 22 million square kilometers.

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

If we add the wizarding war that broke out even before the official outbreak of World War II, as well as all the wizards and magical creatures involved, this number and the scope of the impact might need to be increased even further.

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

"Grindelwald's Crime, that's the name of the war before."

Grindelwald glanced at Dumbledore beside him and shook his head with self-deprecation.

"At first, our goal was not to provoke a war, but to eliminate all crises in the bud before the Muggles started a war. However, the whirlpool became larger and larger—by the time we came to our senses, everyone was already deeply mired in the mud. Taking a step back was even more terrible than death."

"Around Stalingrad, that was the last and first battlefield of wizarding battles."

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

At this point, Grindelwald's cheeks twitched, and he fell into a rare silence.

Obediently hugging her knees and curled up on the soft sofa listening to the story, Erina tilted her head curiously, looked at the suddenly interrupted First Generation Dark Lord, a trace of understanding flashed in her eyes, and subconsciously asked.

"Until finally defeated by the righteous Soviet wizards and the Red Army, and then retreating all the way to Germany, and finally dueling Dumbledore in Forbidden City, losing by a single move, and finally self-imposed, confined to Nurmengard Castle for decades?"

"Of course not! In fact, although the non-magical world war, the Soviet Union won."

Grindelwald glanced at the white-haired ball with a strange expression and shook his head again, sighing.

"Those fools put too much attention on supporting the Muggle battlefield, so on the magical battlefield, we won—the magic school built next to Stalingrad was directly reduced to ruins, and the entire inheritance of the Soviet magical world was buried there. After the Great Patriotic War, only a small handful of young and middle-aged wizards remained in the Soviet Union, so that they could only rely on translating magic textbooks from England to learn even the most basic spells."

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

Even after more than 40 years of recuperation, they have only just breathed a sigh of relief. This is also thanks to their non-magical government's policy of vigorously encouraging childbirth. Under the huge population base, the probability of wizards being born will always be higher.

"Not only the Soviet Union, but the British magical world, no, to be precise, the entire European magical civilization, has experienced extremely serious decline due to those decades of war! The global range of magic schools finally left eleven."

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

As the principal of a magic school, a person who personally ended this war, his only regret is that he did not act earlier, otherwise the situation might not have ended up so out of control.

The ever-updated weapons of Muggles, coupled with the various war magics that wizards have researched over the past thousand years, in that war where everyone lost their minds, people reached the peak of how to kill each other.

Compared to those spells that were later sporadically included in the list of banned dark magic due to Voldemort's appearance.

Those war magics that were born, improved, or first used on a large scale during World War II were almost all uniformly destroyed after the war, and both spells and records were completely cleared—the only ones who still retained memories of war magic, in addition to the survivors of that year, were only old guys like them.

Facts have proved that this is indeed a wise choice.

At least later, when Tom Riddle transformed into Voldemort and attempted to implement a reign of terror in the British region, his biggest worry was that he could not find those powerful war magics at all—unless he created spells from scratch, the magic they could use was only a strengthened version of spells at the level of people.

"So that's how it is? No wonder..."

Listening silently to Grindelwald and Dumbledore telling the story of that year, Erina nodded thoughtfully, and the confusion that had been lingering in her heart was finally resolved.

I have to say, since getting in touch with Grindelwald, she has been very confused about the current state of the magical world.

Logically speaking, the magical world, which has unscientific medical security, strong self-sufficiency, and is closed and stable, has no reason to have such a small population and a simple social structure as it is now. Voldemort is not so destructive.

And the strangest thing about this is the illogical population structure of the magical world.

The population distribution in the magical world shows a very strange situation. Most of the wizards are under the age of sixty. Once they exceed sixty, there will be a very terrible age gap—this is not logical. As wizards with a theoretical lifespan about half longer than Muggles, it is impossible that there is no aging population.

Think about it carefully, the oldest of the Malfoy family is Lucius Malfoy; the Black family has only Sirius Black left; even the lush Weasley family has very few old wizards, and most of them are witches; as for the Gaunt family, um, this is because they destroyed their family by their own death...

On the other hand, professors such as Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout are particularly long-lived, living to seventy or eighty years old without illness or disaster—but it is difficult to find people of the same age outside the scope of Hogwarts Castle.

Not only the huge blank of age groups, as a Hogwarts student and a senior Harry Potter series fan, Erina has always had many doubts before crossing, and now they have been solved.

For example……

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