u/FuckTheRealWormbo

We are all familiar with inventions inspired by war criminals: Porsche was made for Hitler, The Haber-Bosch Process was made for Wilhelm II (Germany leader in WW1), Radio-Frequency Identification technology was inspired by Stalin's great steel bug, etc.

Now, we all know about the wicked, horrible idea of frontloaded levels. Acropolis was one of the first popular levels to take this to a whole new degree by making the beginning harder than the rest by miles. This inspired a lot of other levels to be frontloaded, i.e. Black Blizzard. The atmosphere of Black Blizzard is amazing, but Zobros' manipulation made him add such an annoying beginning that it ruined the level entirely.

This narrows down the question: Which war criminal inspired the frontloaded concept of Acropolis?

And to that, I would first eliminate all of the popular options like Stalin, Hitler, Buckford, Hussein, etc. (Yes, the thumbnail is clickbait), as I know Zobros was too ahead of their time to do that. Rather, I believe he would pick someone niche: Klaus Barbie. He used spiky balls to torture and kill up to 4000 people. Similarly, in Acropolis, there are a bunch of annoying spiky balls that torture you and fry your mind. Klaus Barbie also fought the French Resistance, and we all know damn well that Zobros hates French people (because so does everyone, really). And that answers your question!