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**If there was a liklihood of Pol Pot making a serious effort to [[Take Over the World]] then he would have gotten different treatment. And Stalin was a big worry in his time when he was suspected of that. The reason people cared about Hitler was that he might try to kill ''them'', or someone they related to, not that he killed people in the generic sense.
**To put it another way, aside from the fact that Hitler was a direct threat to the US, there were a lot of Americans descended from, British, Poles, Frenchmen, Scandinavians, Dutchmen, and Jews. Cambodians just arrived on the scene after Pol Pot and when they did America had had all the war it wanted.
**Then too Hitler's Germany was ''conquered'' and thus it's dirty laundry was aired out in public by it's enemies. Only a few of the worst camps were in Germany("Not in my backyard" applied even in the Third Reich) and most were in Poland(primarily because the Germans wanted to make Poland a giant concentration camp anyway so having a super concentration camp there was logical, if you want to call it that). However the advancing Russians were usually willing to show nasty stuff to the press unless they [[Moral Myopia|had something of their own]] [[Empire with a Dark Secret|to hide.]] And the Americans and British found enough slave camps and one or two extermination camps on their front.
* The BBC/Discovery documentary [[wikipedia:Human Planet|Human Planet]] is about the extremes of humans living in nature. Many of the examples in the episodes go this far.
** In Cambodia a man traverses shallow water in a small boat with his young son to gather hundreds of snakes to sell. When he gets home, his wife implores him to give some snakes to the girls to play with. The segment ends showing the girls wearing living snakes as bracelets and necklaces.<ref>This involves enough snakes to be [[Nightmare Fuel]] for people that aren’t scared of snakes. For those not staring in shocked horror, the little girls making jewelry out of small braided snakes is absurdly hilarious.</ref>
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