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Nanjing Massacre
The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing was the mass rape and murder of Chinese civilians, noncombatants, and prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China. It took place immediately after the Battle of Nanjing and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Reichstag fire
arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933
Dersim massacre
Kurdish and Zaza uprising against the Turkish government in Dersim, eastern Turkey
Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig
1939 battle
Yekatit 12
massacre of Ethiopian civilians during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia
Battle of Grodno
during the Soviet invasion of Poland, World War II
1938 Tiberias pogrom
Anti-Semitic pogrom during the 1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine
Pingdingshan massacre
1932 massacre in China by Japan
1938 Changsha Fire
Fire during the Sino-Japanese War
Burning of convents in Spain (1931)
period of civil unrest