Guido Giacomo Preparata sets himself the goal of finding out what forces brought the obscurantists led by Adolf Hitler to power in Germany in the 1930s and helped him unleash one of the most terrible tragedies in human history - World War II. Analyzing the events that followed the unexpected rise of a united Germany at the end of the 19th century, he concludes that the ambitious young state primarily challenged the power of the British Empire. A real nightmare for Britain would be a “fraternal merger” of Germany with Russia - such a geopolitical entity would inevitably destroy its world hegemony. To prevent this from happening in the future, the British ruling elite developed a plan to introduce conflict regimes in Russia and Germany. The war and the Iron Curtain that divided the center of Europe were the successful conclusion of this plan. The story told in this book is, in essence, the story of the British Empire, which, frightened by the growing power of the young German Reich, began to develop and carry out a secret plan for the strategic encirclement of the Eurasian massif. The main goal of this large-scale encirclement is to destroy what could threaten the very existence of the British Empire in the coming century. Having come to this understanding, Britain began a campaign aimed at dismembering Eurasia...

Translation from English by A. Anvaer