And despite the horrific nature of Hitler’s crimes, which only fully came to light after his death and the defeat of Nazi Germany, this was sadly not the last time a mass genocide was carried out by a country’s leader. The genocide ended only when Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1979, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge, and leading to the revelation of the full extent of the atrocities to the world. The regimes fall, the surviving people are eventually liberated, memorials are erected to honor the murdered victims, but the men who orchestrated the mass suffering of millions of people often either die while in power, or at least in relative safety, or take their own lives to escape accountability.
Author: Austin Harvey
Published at: 2026-03-03 00:00:00
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