Is there any documented evidence that history's greatest mass murderers - Hitler and Stalin - ever personally murdered anyone?
- They committed genocide, not mass murder. Mass murder is the killing of many people all at the same time, for example, setting off a bomb in a public place. However the time period and scale of Hitler's and Stalin's crimes makes the term inadequate when referring to more than 6 million Jews, Catholics, Gypsies, homosexuals and diabled people killed in the Holocaust - plus all the Allied and Axis soldiers who died as a result of Hitler's orders.
Tony Bannister, London
