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The Rosenbergs???

How many people died at their hands? Or by events stemming from their actions? (That does appear to be the consensus criterion: how many deaths can be laid at the feet of each.)

I too, would omit Hirohito, as merely a puppet of the warlords. I would move Mengele, Eichmann, Himmler and Milosevic much farther toward the top.

Conspicuously missing: Augusto Pinochet, Ferdinand Marcos, Francisco Franco... and two names I doubt any of the bloggers polled would be familiar with - in fact, I didn't know them either until I began researching for this reply - Daniel Francois Malan and Hendrik Verwoerd, the chief architects of South African apartheid.

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