Adolf Hitler (Adolf Schiklgruber), 1889-1945
A ruthless dictator, Adolf Hitler led Germany to a catastrophe in World War II. Born in Austria, Hitler earned a meager living as an artist in Vienna during his youth. At the outbreak of World War I, he joined the German army. Germany’s surrender in 1918 shocked him into political action. In 1921 he took over a small extremist party of Nazis. His first attempts to seize power in 1923 failed and he was arrested and jailed. While there he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) which set out his ruinous political philosophy. Hitler held extreme nationalist and racist views: he advocated German supremacy and showed a passionate hatred for Jewish people.
In 1932 the Nazis became the largest party in parliament, and the following year Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. He soon eliminated all opposition and established himself as the Fuhrer (leader) of a police state. In 1939 he invaded Poland, launching the world into World War II. Hitler then ordered the “final solution” – the attempted extermination of the Jews. Six million Jews were killed in specially built death camps such as Osvenzim. The gas-chambers and crematoria were waiting for women, children, old and sick people. Young and healthy people were left for hard labour at underground plants, they were doomed to slavery and hungry death. Not many people survived to the moment when the Red Army and ally troops came to set free the prisoners of Osvenzim and other death camps. Hitler’s triumph as the master of most of Europe was short-lived. By 1945 the USSR with the allies defeated his armies. On April 30, 1945, he committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin. The last German forces surrendered a few days later on Ma 8.
Andrei Chikatilo, 1936-1994 (The Rostov Ripper)
Andrei Chikatilo, one of the world’s worst serial killers, murdered up to 53 young girls and boys in Russia starting in 1982 and ending in 1990, when he was captured. Starting from June 1982 the bodies of his victims were found in the Ukraine. They contained numerous stab wounds, and their eyes were ripped off. The fact that the information about the series of crimes was not published for fear of panic and embarrassment made it difficult to catch the killer. But the detectives managed to link the cases and realized that the killer lured his victims at the train station in town. The stations were then monitored by plain-clothes detectives, looking for any suspicious behaviour. Chikatilo was discovered in the train station trying to pick up children. The police apprehended him and searched his bag. They found a rope, dirty towels and a kitchen knife. But the blood tests seemed to indicate that he was not involved in the series of crimes. Chikatilo was then released.
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A profile of the killer was compiled by a leading Russian psychologist. He called the killer ‘Citizen X’ and concluded that X possibly had a wife and children (which was later confirmed). He called the killer a sadist, and mutilating his victims was some form of dominance.
Years later Chikatilo was detained again. He admitted to at least 53 murders and also led police to some undiscovered victims. Chikatilo’s reasons for gouging at his victims’ eyes was that he believed that the victims’ eyes kept an image of the killer in them after. Chikatilo spent his 6-months trial in a steel cage. He was found legally sane and sentenced to death. He was executed by a gunshot to the head in 1994.
Osama Bin Laden (b. 1957)
Osama Bin Muhammed bin Awad bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia in 1957 – the 17th of 52 children, born into Saudi Arabia’s wealthiest construction family. In 1979 Bin Laden graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering and in the same year his violent terrorist roots were formed when he joined the mujahadeen movement in Afghanistan.
During 1986-1989, Bin Laden established the now notorious ‘Al Quaeda’ network – an organization of ex-mujahadeen, with a murderous mission to provide fighters and funds for the Afghan armed struggle. As a result of the increasingly violent policies, allegedly dictated by Bin Laden, there followed a series of terrorist actions across the globe. The first was an explosion in a hotel an Aden and then the New York World Trade Centre bombing in 1992. Bin Laden is now on a mission to promote his terrorist ideas in the name of Islam, driven by his belief that violence is the only policy. His fanatical terrorist views include the concept of suicide attacks.
Bin Laden’s Jihad (holy war) reached a peak in 2001, resulting in the world’s most devastating terrorist outrage – destruction of the New York World Trade Centre and an attack on the Pentagon in Washington on September 11, where 3,500 souls perished.
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Bin Laden has enormous personal wealth and he could spend his life in tranquil luxury, but he has chosen to support violent terrorist groups. It could be argued he has symptoms of a control freak. It is interesting to observe that although he is only in his fifties, he looks much older and walks with a curved back and a walking stick. This may be a classic example of somebody who is physically inferior but seeks power and violence as a substitute.
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