Massacres in 1940

Soviet mass murder of ca. 22,000 Poles in several parts of European Russia, including in the Katyn forest, which became a pars pro toto name for the whole massacre

Nazi extermination operation directed at Poles in early World War II

1940 military operation

a series of mass executions carried out by Nazi German forces, during the Second World War, near the village of Palmiry, northwest of Warsaw.

WW2 war crime

massacres perpetrated by Nazi Germany

war Crime preformed by soldiers of the Waffen-SS in WW2

1940 massacre in Romania

perpetration of civilians in Poland

massacre

1940 killing of Romanian civilians by Hungarian forces in Transylvania