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page 1Massacres in 1938

Kristallnacht
' ( ) or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s)' (, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening. The euphemistic name comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed. The pretext for the attacks was the assassination, on 9 November 1938, of the German dipl

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.
Vinnytsia massacre
mass execution in Ukraine
Dersim massacre
Kurdish and Zaza uprising against the Turkish government in Dersim, eastern Turkey
Tsuyama massacre
1938 spree killing in Japan
1938 Tiberias pogrom
Anti-Semitic pogrom during the 1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine