WHY? Because he killed so many people. How naive to imagine that historians simply "report the facts." There is a profound interaction between political actors and historians. Political leaders are not stupid. They know what historians like to write about.

Political Leaders PERFORM for historians. Historians are the primary audience of political leaders. If you murder a lot of people, you will "go down in history." Historians go down on mass-murderers.

RICHARD KOENIGSBERG