“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”-John Acton. I believe with too much power people begin to believe that they are better than other humans. Power is a tool used to make choices. But, it doesn't always corrupt someone. Although, power increases the chance of corruption.

A great example of a man with too much power is Kim Jong-Il, the dictator of North Korea who was in power from 1994 to 2011. Kim Jong-Il has done many bad things with his power, such as putting thousands of people including children in imprisoned labor camps. They were appointed to imprison labor camps due to the acts he considered to be a crime which was hoarding food, and being an anti-socialist. Inside of the imprisonment labor camps the imprisoned …show more content…
This began in 1933 when the first concentration camps were made.The concentration camps were very dirty places where they would never clean it, there would be piles of dead decomposing bodies. The captured Jews were tattooed with numbers so they could be I.D'd. In the captured Jews confinement they were often beaten with sticks or tortured by the Schutzstaffel (an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force). A torture method they often used was them binding the prisoner's hands together behind their back and hanging them from their hand, soon causing them to have a dislocated shoulder.there were many other ways they would torture the prisoners such as putting them in rooms and killing them with gas, starving them, hangings, mass shootings, putting them in ice water until their hearts stopped and much more. He even attempted to influence the children by teaching them to humiliate Jews, practice Nazism and worship Hitler. Due to his actions he caused World War II, which was fought from 1939-1941. An American soldier said "There our troops found sights, sounds, and stenches horrible beyond belief, cruelties so enormous as to be incomprehensible to the normal