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Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. By the end of the Second World War,Hitler¡¯s policies of defensive invasion and racial suppression had brought death and destruction to tens of millions of people, including six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust. On 30 April 1945, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while at the same time biting into a cyanide capsule.
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Josef Stalin
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Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Unions Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Under Stalins leadership, the Ukraine suffered from a famine. Estimates of the number of deaths range from 2.5 million to 10 million. The famine was caused because of the political and administrative decisions. The total number murdered under Stalin¡¯s reign, range from 10 million to 60 million.
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Idi Amin Dada
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Idi Amin was an army officer and president of Uganda. He took power in a military coup in January 1971. His rule was characterized by human rights abuses, political domination, ethnic harassment, extra judicial killings and the expulsion of Indians from Uganda. The number of people killed in his regime is unknown, however the estimates range from 80,000 to 500,000.
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Leopold II of Belgium
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Leopold II was King of Belgium from 1865-1909. Leopold created the Congo Free State, to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa, which relied on forced labor and resulted in the deaths of approximately 3 million Congolese.
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Pol Pot
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Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979. During his time in power Pol Pot forced an extreme version of agrarian communism where all city dwellers were relocated to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects. The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions is estimated to have killed around 2 million Cambodians.
The Khmer Rouge committed mass killings in sites known as the Killing Fields. The executed were buried in mass graves. In order to save ammunition, executions were often carried out using hammers, axe handles, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks.
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Attila the Hun
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Attila was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. He was Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. In Western Europe, he is remembered as the embodiment of cruelty and greed. He was murdered on his wedding night.
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Maximilien Robespierre
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Maximilien Robespierre was a leader of the French revolution and his arguments caused the revolutionary government to murder the king. In addition, Robespierre was one of the main driving forces behind the reign of terror. The Terror took the lives of between 18,500 to 40,000 people. In an act of coincidental justice, Robespierre was decapitated without a trial in 1794.
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Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. By the end of the Second World War,Hitler¡¯s policies of defensive invasion and racial suppression had brought death and destruction to tens of millions of people, including six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust. On 30 April 1945, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while at the same time biting into a cyanide capsule.
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Josef Stalin
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Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Unions Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Under Stalins leadership, the Ukraine suffered from a famine. Estimates of the number of deaths range from 2.5 million to 10 million. The famine was caused because of the political and administrative decisions. The total number murdered under Stalin¡¯s reign, range from 10 million to 60 million.
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Idi Amin Dada
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Idi Amin was an army officer and president of Uganda. He took power in a military coup in January 1971. His rule was characterized by human rights abuses, political domination, ethnic harassment, extra judicial killings and the expulsion of Indians from Uganda. The number of people killed in his regime is unknown, however the estimates range from 80,000 to 500,000.
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Leopold II of Belgium
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Leopold II was King of Belgium from 1865-1909. Leopold created the Congo Free State, to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa, which relied on forced labor and resulted in the deaths of approximately 3 million Congolese.
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Pol Pot
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Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979. During his time in power Pol Pot forced an extreme version of agrarian communism where all city dwellers were relocated to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects. The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions is estimated to have killed around 2 million Cambodians.
The Khmer Rouge committed mass killings in sites known as the Killing Fields. The executed were buried in mass graves. In order to save ammunition, executions were often carried out using hammers, axe handles, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks.
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Attila the Hun
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Attila was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. He was Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. In Western Europe, he is remembered as the embodiment of cruelty and greed. He was murdered on his wedding night.
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Maximilien Robespierre
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Maximilien Robespierre was a leader of the French revolution and his arguments caused the revolutionary government to murder the king. In addition, Robespierre was one of the main driving forces behind the reign of terror. The Terror took the lives of between 18,500 to 40,000 people. In an act of coincidental justice, Robespierre was decapitated without a trial in 1794.
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