Oh that sixteen year old Palestinian boy was burned alive

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135. Leopold Who? would be most people's rsponses.

We all know who Adolph Hitler was, but his mentality was very apparent in most First and Second World nations at that time. (If you ever get the chance, read Life Magazines dating back to like 1916 or so. The "n" word is used for African Americans, the "k" word for Jewish people in some of the published letters to the editor. Lynching is discussed as a fact of life, and so is some citizens' worry about the need to purify the national gene pool. Such strange things are discussed.)

And because of WWII, the focus was never on Leopold, even though so much of what he accomplished was in terms of the same genocide and cleansing that Hitler achieved (although Hitler's stage of operation was more world wide, and in places that the media focused on, not the backwaters of Africa.)