The world has seem several notorious leaders, but the four mentioned below, are classic in view of the magnitude of their notoriety. The order in which they appear has no significance.

1. Adolf Hitler of Germany-This man is definitely one of the most notorious world leaders. Hitler was the Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 when he committed suicide as the Allies were descending on him. Hitler is notorious for his "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" or the Holocaust, in which over 14 million people, including six million Jewish people, were killed. Death of these people occurred through deliberate mass gassing, starvation, death due to exhaustion or disease resulting from slave labor. Although other groups like gays, Jehovah's witnesses, Slavic people and ethnic Poles were also targeted by the Nazi, the writer shall dwell more on Jews as they were the largest group.

As soon as Hitler got into power, even before the killings started, he immediately embarked on passing laws aimed at economically crippling Jews. From early 1933, the Nazis started encouraging the general population to boycott Jewish businesses. Entrances of Jewish businesses were blocked by Nazis carrying signs calling upon people not to buy from Jewish businesses.Then a series of laws were passed excluding Jews from being lawyers, doctors , dentists, teachers, news paper editors, joining the military, and denying Jews Health insurance. Then in 1935, some laws were passed prohibiting marriage between Jews and Germans, and prohibiting intercourse between Jews and Germans. In 1938, Jewish children were expelled from non-Jewish schools, and Jewish businesses were compulsorily acquired . In 1939, Jews were ordered to surrender all their gold and silver, and were prohibited from government jobs.

The Nazis, led by Hitler, killed the over six million Jews in a number of ways: Concentration camps where Jews were used as slave labor and died either from exhaustion or from disease. Death squads were formed to mass murder Jews by shooting.Also, concentration camps were built were Jews were transported to be gassed to death in gas chambers. The Jews were transported to the concentration camps in overcrowded trains, and many of them died during the journey. For the laws that his Nazis passed from 1933 stripping Jews of all their rights, and for the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler is definitely one of the most notorious world leaders.

2. The Last King of Scotland (Idi Amin Dada)-This derailed

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