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Brutality

See also Cruelty, Mutilation.

Black Prince

angered by Limoges’ resistance, massacred three hundred inhabitants (1370). [Eur. Hist.: Bishop, 75]

Caracalla

Roman emperor (211–217) massacred many thousands [Rom. Hist.: EB (1963) IV, 825]

Cenci, Count

he delighted in making people suffer. [Br. Lit.: “The Cenci” in Magill I, 131–133]

Crown

a stevedore who deals with people by physical force. [Am. Lit.: Porgy, Magill I, 764–766]

Drancy

concentration camp; France’s largest Jewish deportation center. [Jew. Hist.: Wigoder, 161]

Eichmann, Adolph

(1906–1962) Nazi SS officer; directed “Final Solution” in Europe. [Jew. Hist.: Wigoder, 167]

Enlil

ordered wholesale destruction of humanity by flood. [Babylonian Myth.: Gilgamesh]

Gestapo

German secret police under Nazi regime. [Ger. History: RHD, 595]

Grimes, Peter

fisherman suspected of ill-treating his apprentices. [Br. Opera: Peter Grimes in Osborne Opera, 240]

Herod Antipas

presents John the Baptist’s head to Salome. [N.T.: Mark 6:17–28]

Himmler, Heinrich

(1900–1945) architect of the “Final Solution” to exterminate Jews. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler]

Hitler, Adolf

(1889–1945) Nazi dictator; architect of “Final Solution” to exterminate Jews. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler]

Jael

drove tent-peg through skull of Sisera. [O.T.: Judges 4:19–21]

Koch, Ilse

“Bitch of Buchenwald”; had inmates skinned for lampshades (WWII). [Ger. Hist.: Shirer, 1280]

Kramer, Josef

“Beast of Belsen”; camp exterminator (WWII). [Ger. Hist.: Shirer, 878]

Mengele, Dr. Joseph

Auschwitz concentration camp doctor; experimented on inmates (WWII). [Ger. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 83]

Nazi

Jew-baiting, murderous Aryan supremacist under Hitler. [Ger. Hist.: Shirer]

Nero

coarse, conceited, brutal emperor of Rome (37–68). [Polish Lit.: Quo Vadis, Magill I, 797–799]

Procrustes

robber; stretches or amputates limbs of victims to fit his bed. [Class. Myth.: Zimmerman, 221]

Reign of Terror

all roads led to the guillotine (1793–1794). [Fr. Hist.: EB, IX: 904]

S.S.

ruthless corps implemented Nazi atrocities. [Germ. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary]

SAVAK

Iranian secret police [Iranian History: Facts (1979), 125]

St. Evremonde, Marquis

ruthless aristocrat deliberately killed two people and ran over a child. [Br. Lit.: Dickens A Tale of Two Cities]