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Massacres in World War II

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Jewish insurgency against Nazi Germany in German-occupied Poland during World War II

Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia

massacre of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II

Rumbula massacre

Nazi massacre of Jews in Riga, Latvia, in late 1941

Manila massacre

atrocities committed against Filipino civilians by Japanese troops at the Battle of Manila

Khatyn massacre

Nazi massacre in Belarus

Foibe massacres

extrajudicial mass killings of Italian and other local populations in Istria and Dalmatia during and after the Second World War

Laconia incident

Sinking of British troopship and attempted rescue of survivors by German submarines during World War II

systematic purge

ship built in 1940

Thiaroye Massacre

massacre of French West African troops by French forces

mass shooting of ethnic Albanians

village in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province), Ukraine

Ústí massacre

communist purges in Serbia in 1944–1945

War crimes by the Yugoslav Partisan Movement

Jilava massacre

1940 massacre in Romania

Javoříčko is a village and municipal part of Luká in Olomouc District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 40 inhabitants. The village is known as the site of a Nazi massacre during World War II, which left it almost completely destroyed.

Bloody Christmas

campaign of executions of Bulgarians in the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Foiba of Basovizza

Pontianak incidents

Massacres in Kalimantan, Dutch East Indies by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II

Arakan massacres in 1942

part of the Japanese invasion of Burma during World War II

Kalagong massacre

Mass killing of civilians by Japanese troops in Burma on 7 July 1945

Treznea massacre

1940 killing of Romanian civilians by Hungarian forces in Transylvania

Homfreyganj massacre

massacre during World War II in the Andaman islands

thumb|300px|Ploština memorial Ploština was a small settlement in what is today the municipality of Drnovice in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. On 19 April 1945, at the end of World War II, it was burned and its people were massacred by Nazis in response to their support of the anti-Nazi resistance movement. The massacre was conducted by the German special SS unit Zur besonderen Verwendung-Kommando Nr. 31, led by Walter Pawlofski, and by the SS anti-partisan unit Josef consisting of members of Slovak Hlinka-Guard, whose headquarters was in Vizovice.

Woyane rebellion

1943 rebellion of Tigrayans against Haile Sellassie administration

Sărmașu massacre

1944 killings in Romania

Makarska massacre

1942 mass murder of Croat civilians