Many of the Famous psychopaths That I will name you next have been mass leaders. Psychopathy is one of the personality disorders that most draws people's attention.
There are many movies and several TV series that show these characters, like The silence of the lambs, Dexter or The following.
However, these people are not so rare. It is believed that more than 1% of the population are psychopaths and that up to 4% of political and business leaders are.
Since children show the personality traits typical of psychopathy, which Not to be confused with sociopathy .
You may also like this List of psychopathic children .
1-Adolf Hitler
It was the forerunner of Nazism and World War II.
When the war ended millions of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, communists and other groups had died in the Holocaust. More than 5,000,000 Jews were killed: some 3,000,000 in extermination centers and labor camps, 1,400,000 in mass shootings, and more than 600,000 in ghettos (the number of victims is estimated to have been almost 6,000,000).
By the end of the war, Hitler's violent policies of territorial conquest and racial subjugation had caused the death of between 55 and 60 million people (about 2% of the world's population at that time), mostly civilians, As well as a considerable degree of destruction of European cities.
Something little is known is that Hitler was not likely to give a direct order to exterminate the Jews, even if he knew what was being done. According to Wikipedia
"Their role in this respect is less evident than it may seem at first glance. Historians have not come to any clear agreement as to the extent of Hitler's direct intervention in directing the policy of extermination, including the debate over whether there was any order."
Other hypotheses in this respect have pointed to January of 1941 like date for a decision of Hitler to exterminate the Jews (Richard Breitman); To August 1941, just as the declaration of the Atlantic Charter signed by Roosevelt and Churchill
However, their justifications for genocide, especially concentrated during the first months of 1942, and with direct references to their knowledge of it, are safe.
In my opinion, Hitler was the flame that lit the wick of a hate bomb. Without him, everything that happened probably would not have happened, although all the generals and soldiers who followed him might have decided not to. One more sign of the importance of not following the herd and avoiding Group thinking .
2-Erzsébet Báthory"the Blood Countess"
She was a Hungarian aristocrat, belonging to one of the most powerful families in her country.
It has the Guinness record of the woman who has killed the most in the history of mankind with 630 deaths. Obsessed with beauty and youthfulness, she used the blood of her young servants and pupils to stay young.
Between 1604 and 1610, Erzsébet's agents dedicated themselves to providing them between 9 and 16 years for their bloody rituals.
He used an instrument of torture called"iron maiden", which was a sarcophagus that reflected the silhouette of a woman and that inside had sharp spikes. This contraption opened to introduce the victim and then locked it so that the spikes embedded in his body.
3-Josef Mengele
He is infamous for selecting the victims who were to be executed in the gas chambers and for his pacific and often fatal experiments with prisoners.
According to a prisoner in Auschwitz:
He was able to be very kind to the children so they would take care of him, give them sugar, think about the daily details of their lives and do things that we would really like to admire... And then, the smoke from the crematoria and, the next day Or half an hour later, those children were sent there.
4-Jack the Ripper
He was a serial killer of unknown identity who committed several crimes in 1888, mainly in the district of Whitechapel, in London.
According to Thomas Bond, the doctor who investigated the bodies of the victims:
"The killer, in his outward appearance, is likely to be harmless in appearance. A middle-aged man, well-groomed and respectable. He may be in the habit of wearing a cloak or coat, otherwise the blood of his hands and clothes would have drawn attention to the passers-by."
5-Iossif Stalin
He was president of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from the 6 of May of 1941 until the 5 of March of 1953.
It is estimated that a minimum of about 10 million dead - 4 million by repression and 6 by hunger - are attributable to their repressive regime.
He demonstrated from a young age a rigid, cold, calculating and reluctant personality to demonstrate his emotions. He showed throughout his life, almost total lack of affection and emotional detachment from those who were considered in his inner circle, although in its external domain seemed reliable.
6-Ivan the Terrible
He was the first to bear the title of tsar (since 1547) and is considered as one of the creators of the Russian state.
According to Polish non-impartial writers, he boasted of having deflowered more than 1000 virgins and subsequently murdered the resulting children, thus showing their disruption.
In a fit of anger, on November 16, 1580, he struck his eldest son with his cane.
He also killed several of his enemies and friends, which made Ivan become even more psychotic.
7-The killer of the Zodiac
He was a serial killer who stalked northern California between December 1968 and October 1969. In a letter allegedly his confessed to the killing of 37 victims, although the only confirmed were four men and three women.
It was estimated that the Zodiac would be between 20 and 30 years old at the time of their crimes; Who was white, heavyset, with brown hair, who had knowledge of encrypted languages and possessed great intelligence.
8-Henry VIII
He was king of England and lord of Ireland from the 22 of April of 1509 until his death.
The hard and tyrannical character of this monarch, especially in his last times, did not constitute an obstacle to count on the fidelity and the affection of his town.
He was also known for cutting heads. He married 6 times and cut off the heads of two of his wives.
9-Charles Manson
He is a well-known American criminal who carried out several murders, among them, the macabre murder of Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski) and his guests in his residence of Beverly Hills 9 of August of 1969.
The following night, Manson entered the house of businessman Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary on the outskirts of Los Angeles. After assuring them that he would not harm them, he bound them and let Tex in, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten, who killed the pair, stabbing them.
10-Mao Zedong
He was the top leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976.
It is estimated that no less than 30 million people died from starvation because of their policies. Investigators Chang and Halliday (2006) consider Mao a tyrannical dictator, who would have been directly responsible for the deaths of more than 70 million Chinese.
What other psychopaths do you think could be added to this list?