It really doesn&#x27;t.<p>Europe&#x27;s much darker hours were the whole past 2 decades when it helped destroy those people&#x27;s countries to &quot;bring democracy&quot; (and get cheap oil, control of the area, resources etc).<p>And thne it was the colonial era, that lasted (openly, as it still lasts) until the seventies. Where those migrants (and more, close to a billion people) were slaves to European empires.<p>Then there was WWII, when most of Europe fell for nazism (only a handful of countries had widespread resistance movements), and killed several million people.<p>So, no, &quot;Treatment of Migrants Evokes Memories of Europe&#x27;s Darkest Hour&quot; only if you have a short span memory.