From bathing in girls' blood to making homemade conjoined twins, these 10 famous psychopaths are some of the most terrifying people in the history of the world.
Everyone is well aware of the atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler . And many know that under Joseph Stalin ’s leaders , the act of those killed via starvation and murder ranges from about 10 to 60 million .
alas , these tyrants are n’t the only one who have taken history and left a nasty smear in its page . Here are ten noted psychopaths from chronicle that rank right up there with the worst of them :
History’s Most Famous Psychopaths: King Leopold II
King of Belgium from 1865 to 1909,Leopold IIis well known for rule over the Congo Free State in central Africa between 1885 and 1908 .
Under his brutal ruler in Africa , millions of Congolese people died . The end toll estimates vary wildly ( and the truthful number will never be known for sure ) , but low figure are still around 5 million while mellow flesh pose near 20 million .
Leopold ’s aim was to extract rubber and ivory from the Congo region . To do so , he used forced Congolese project that fag under threat of awful revilement from Leopold ’s regular army , the Force Publique .
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The atrocities committed under his regime involve enslaving the aboriginal universe , torment , maiming , and slaughter .
For example , Leopold II impose quotas on every serviceman in his realm for the production of raw cloth . Men who fail to meet their ivory and aureate quota even once would look mutilation , with hands and feet being the most popular sites for amputation . If the man could not be get , or if he needed both hands to study , Force Publique men would veer the hand off of his wife or children .
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A Congolese boy who is pretermit his mitt .
International air pressure over account of ill-usage that had leak out out last pull Leopold to commute some of his policies and give up some of his land in 1908 . Nevertheless , the Congo was still a Belgian dependency and far-flung atrociousness persisted until the land ’s independency in 1960 ( when civil war and atrocities of other varieties begin ) .
A Congolese boy who is missing his hand.
