7/14/2023 0 Comments Was hitler man of the year![]() ![]() ![]() Genghis Khan, whose 12th-century wars are thought to have killed as many as 40 million people, may have been the dark icon of that era. So was Caligula actually the worst person who ever lived? First-century Romans probably thought so. Yes, we live inside our current and recent history, so that what is now or what is still near looms larger, closer than things in the more distant past. ![]() He is, in the simplest and most straightforward way we can put it, the worst person who ever lived. He is concept turned human, evil made flesh. In the decades since his physical death, Hitler has lived on in a similar way: as moral touch point, a perverse gold standard for all that is wicked, all that is murderous.
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