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Rotterdam Blitz
aerial bombardment of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe (German air force) on 14 May 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II
Anti-Jewish Dorohoi pogrom
1940 massacre of Jews by Romanian troops
Bloody Wednesday in Olkusz
perpetration of civilians in Poland
HMS Port Napier
1940 minelayer destroyed in Loch Alsh, Scotland, by an explosion following an engine room fire