Highest Kill Count

sebastianlieken · 02-07-2012 05:18PM #1

I saw a picture here on the internet recently of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao having the most absurdly high Kill/Death ratios in history, but... they didn't actually do any of the dirty work.

My question is, which individual person in history is directly responsible for the most deaths ever? And by that, I mean the guy who pulled the metaphorical trigger.

Maybe one of the guys at Aushwitz who dropped the gas canisters in through the roof? Thoughts?

probably best to excluded Paul Warfield Tibbets (the guy who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima) because well, unfair advantage!

Kess73 · 02-07-2012 05:21PM

Rambo racked up a fair few kills when he wenting hiking in Burman a few years back.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huejDD4znaE

R019912 · 02-07-2012 05:22PM

sebastianlieken wrote: »

the most absurdly high Kill/Death ratios in history!

Sounds like someones been playing a bit too much call of duty.

sebastianlieken · 02-07-2012 05:23PM

R019912 wrote: »

Sounds like someones been playing a bit too much call of duty.

BF3 :P

Witcher · 02-07-2012 05:25PM

Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper killed 500+ men. There's probably some fighter pilot that sank a battleship in the Pacific during WW2 that has more kills but for a man using a rifle with iron sights it's impressive.

AnonoBoy · 02-07-2012 05:26PM

sebastianlieken wrote: »

My question is, which individual person in history is directly responsible for the most deaths ever? And by that, I mean the guy who pulled the metaphorical trigger.

If you signed off on an execution order you'd be metaphorically pulling the trigger.

Do you mean actually pulling the trigger?

christmas2012 · 02-07-2012 05:27PM

Highest kill count today would be the cia/al qaeda..

Between them a lot of people got shot to pieces or blown up and taken hostage and murdered..

Merkin · 02-07-2012 05:27PM

If you're talking about one singular incident then I'd say that bloke Tibbets who dropped the Hiroshima bomb, took out about 100,000 in one felt swoop and thousands afterwards from the after effects.

02-07-2012 05:32PM

Kill/death ratio? Since this is real life, then people generally only die once ...

ejmaztec · 02-07-2012 05:33PM

Merkin wrote: »

If you're talking about one singular incident then I'd say that bloke Tibbets who dropped the Hiroshima bomb, took out about 100,000 in one felt swoop and thousands afterwards from the after effects.

Yes, he went nuclear on their asses.

sebastianlieken · 02-07-2012 05:35PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

If you signed off on an execution order you'd be metaphorically pulling the trigger.

Do you mean actually pulling the trigger?

no I mean metaphorically... as in it could be droping a grenade, giving a lethal injection, steering a plane into a building etc. the direct and final action which results in death of the other party.

@ Merkin, yeah, probably was Tibbets, but in fairness, that was basically Spawn Rape

SEPT 23 1989 · 02-07-2012 05:35PM

Manfred von Richthofen

sebastianlieken · 02-07-2012 05:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Kill/death ratio? Since this is real life, then people generally only die once ...

bonus points if you die more than once :pac:

FortuneChip · 02-07-2012 05:36PM

This Guy

MetalDog · 02-07-2012 05:37PM

This guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Blokhin
was the NKVD's chief executioner during Stalin's purges and WWII. "Blokhin is recorded as having personally executed tens of thousands of prisoners by his own hand, including the notorious Katyn Massacre of 7,000 Polish officers "

forfuxsake · 02-07-2012 05:38PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

If you signed off on an execution order you'd be metaphorically pulling the trigger.

Do you mean actually pulling the trigger?

Not really. Dropping a bomb doesn't constitute 'pulling a trigger' and neither does releasing a canister of gas.

I think you must be one of those people who says 'literally' but means something else entirely.

brummytom · 02-07-2012 05:38PM

How many people did Harold Shipman kill? I'm sure it was into 100s

drunkmonkey · 02-07-2012 05:38PM

More people killed since the introduction of Abortion in the USA than in both world wars.
So American Doctors, biggest killers on earth. Second biggest Killers, the American Army, anyone seeing a pattern?

forfuxsake · 02-07-2012 05:41PM

MetalDog wrote: »

This guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Blokhin
was the NKVD's chief executioner during Stalin's purges and WWII. "Blokhin is recorded as having personally executed tens of thousands of prisoners by his own hand, including the notorious Katyn Massacre of 7,000 Polish officers "

Jaysus, never realised Katyn was a one-man show. One every three minutes over 28 days.

sebastianlieken · 02-07-2012 05:45PM

MetalDog wrote: »

This guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Blokhin
was the NKVD's chief executioner during Stalin's purges and WWII. "Blokhin is recorded as having personally executed tens of thousands of prisoners by his own hand, including the notorious Katyn Massacre of 7,000 Polish officers "

Jaysus, I never heard of this fela either. fliiiip. that's pretty insane!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 02-07-2012 05:58PM

Thug Behram (1765-1840) of the Thugee cult in India was thought to have individually killed 931 people during his time with group. He was hanged by the British in 1840. Behram himself put his final total at just over 150.

Note the name 'Thugee', this the origin of the word thug in the English language.

AnonoBoy · 02-07-2012 05:59PM

forfuxsake wrote: »

I think you must be one of those people who says 'literally' but means something else entirely.

You think wrong. Literally.

sebastianlieken wrote: »

no I mean metaphorically... as in it could be droping a grenade, giving a lethal injection, steering a plane into a building etc. the direct and final action which results in death of the other party.

Yes but the thing is that as in my example "metaphorically pulling the trigger" can also apply to someone who makes an order and indirectly kills someone. I've never heard about someone setting off a bomb being referred to as having "pulled the trigger".

There's little need to use the metaphor in a case where the action was the direct cause of the death. That's why I queried what you meant.

AnonoBoy · 02-07-2012 06:00PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

More people killed since the introduction of Abortion in the USA than in both world wars.
So American Doctors, biggest killers on earth. Second biggest Killers, the American Army, anyone seeing a pattern?

I see a pattern of you missing the point of the thread!

The OP is asking about one individual person.

krudler · 02-07-2012 06:01PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Thug Behram (1765-1840) of the Thugee cult in India was thought to have individually killed 931 people during his time with group. He was hanged by the British in 1840. Behram himself put his final total at just over 150.

Note the name 'Thugee', this the origin of the word thug in the English language.

then Indiana Jones wandered into their temple of doom and fucked all their shit up.

golden lane · 02-07-2012 06:03PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I see a pattern of you missing the point of the thread!

The OP is asking about one individual person.

stalin.....estimates are around 55 million...

Lisandro · 02-07-2012 06:06PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

More people killed since the introduction of Abortion in the USA than in both world wars.
So American Doctors, biggest killers on earth. Second biggest Killers, the American Army, anyone seeing a pattern?

Nice try to covertly introduce the anti-abortion agenda. If you really want to apply that fallacious every-embryo-is-a-human-life argument, then you must also acknowledge the deaths of five hundred million sperm cells killed in every ****. Therefore, the biggest killers in history are young single males who can't get laid.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 02-07-2012 06:06PM

golden lane wrote: »

stalin.....estimates are around 55 million...

He gave orders, signed death warrants etc but he didn't himself personally kill each and every person.

AnonoBoy · 02-07-2012 06:06PM

golden lane wrote: »

stalin.....estimates are around 55 million...

*smacks head*

Read the OP.

Tombi! · 02-07-2012 06:09PM

Are we talking indirectly or directly?
Hitler did start off WW2 (as far as I know) and that's been the highest body count known so far.

Directly are we talking things like the Finnish sniper who was part of a war or are we talking about spree killers (like rampages) or just complete nutjob serial killers like Countess Elizabeth Báthory?

And this topic is morbid and I feel bad.

golden lane · 02-07-2012 06:10PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

*smacks head*

Read the OP.

nods head....read the post's..

Capt'n Midnight · 02-07-2012 06:11PM

In 1938 the Chinese Nationalists blew up a dam on the Yellow River during a retreat from the Japanese. No warning was given. No one was keeping statistics but death toll was at least half a million, if you include famine and related deaths perhaps over three million.

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