PHOTOS OF THE MOST EVIL MEN
IN HISTORY
While portrayed as monsters
in the pages of history, these were real people with friends, families, and
personalities who slowly evolved into the malevolent faces you see today.
Idi Amin
Idi Amin, Chief of Army Staff
in Uganda, took the role of President by force in 1971.
He initially promised to
bring peace to the country but soon thereafter, became known as the “Butcher
of Uganda”. Amin had a long list of disturbing goals, one of which
being to rid the population of Indian and Pakistani citizens. In order to implement
this plan, he resorted to measures extreme as supplying terrorists with troops
and weapons to be used upon his own people. The self-proclaimed cannibal’s
favourite method of killing was feeding people to crocodiles. He was also known
to have mutilated one of his wives and attempted to rearrange her limbs. During
his brutal eight year reign, he tortured and killed nearly half a million people.
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler was the
Reich leader between 1929-1945, during this time he was known as the second
most powerful man in Germany and acted as the primary architect of the
Holocaust. He was given the task to structure and recruit for the SS guards and
Nazi party. During his reign he was able to gain control over the German police.
He also oversaw the plans for the “Final Solution”,
which was Hitler’s plan to murder all Jews in Europe. It is rumoured but
not verified that Himmler had furniture constructed from the skins and bones of
his victims.
Mao Zedong: Mao Zedong was
one of the founding members of the Chinese Communist party. During his reign as
dictator of China from 1943-1976, Mao tirelessly pursued his dream of making
China a world superpower. Although he is credited with certain positive developments
such as modernizing China, he was also responsible for the death of 40 to 70
million people through labour camps, executions and starvation. Tens of
millions were sent to labour camps. Five million were executed. Famine alone
during this time period killed 30 to 45 million. Mao had little to no tolerance
for perspectives opposed to his own. He was known for burying scholars alive
along with anyone else he saw as a threat to the communist party.
Pol Pot
Pol Pot was the leader of the
Cambodian revolutionary group, Khmer Rouge, from
1975-1979. Pot set out on a
mission to create a classless peasant society, but believed the only way to
accomplish this goal was to burn the existing system to the ground. He is the
only man in history who ordered a genocidal movement against his own people. He
imposed agrarian socialism, forcing two million urban dwellers to move to the
countryside, working in government- run farms and forced labor projects. Malnutrition
was rampant as workers were given one 180 gram tin of rice every two days. This
obviously led to decreased productivity but these human being would drop likes
flies in the fields or be executed if they refused to work themselves to death.
Executions, forced labour, mass malnutrition, and inadequate medical care resulted
in deaths totaling 1 to 3 million people. Pol Pot killed 25% of his own countrys
population in just over three years.
Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele was known as
the “Angel of Death” during the
Holocaust. He worked in the death camps, mainly Auschwitz, where one of his
main duties was deciding who was gassed and who was not upon their terrifying arrival.
He had an obsession for twins and did experiments in order to see if he could “change”
the DNA of identical twins. He experimented on an estimated 3,000 sets of twins
with only 200 surviving. If victims did not die directly from the experiments,
they were sent straight to the gas chambers.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler is one of the
most well known dictators in all of history. Hitler was the chancellor of
Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of the Nazy Party. He was largely responsible
for the Holocaust and start of the WWII. He believed that Jews were the root
cause of all problems in society and that the only solution was to exterminate
them. He once said “by the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one
can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.”
He never hesitated to order the death of any Jew, enemy, or person he thought
would slow down the Nazi party. He used wounded patients in hospitals for test
experiments, killing 300,000. Every Jew in Germany and some in other countries was
sent to concentration camps where they were forced to work until they died or were
killed. Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the disabled
died from gas chambers, crematories, firing squads, forced labour, starvation,
poison, disease, lethal injections and other sadistic experiments. Hitler himself
was responsible for the deaths of more than 11 million people and his actions
resulted in the deaths of over 50million people.
