Military-related euphemisms

various ways of displacing or exterminating human beings from another ethnic group from a territory

Nazi plan for the genocide or extermination of the Jews, resulted in the genocide known as 'Holocaust' or 'Shoah'

military sexual slavery system designed and implemented by Japan Empire from early 1930s until the end of World War II, or the victims who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military

slogan (“Work sets you free”) on the entrance of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps

military attacks by air aimed at destroying a country's ability to make war and will to fight

propaganda term for the sphere of influence of the Japanese empire, purporting to provide pan-Asian autonomy free from European colonialism

damage to things that are incidental to the intended target

Russian troops without insignia that participated in the 2014 annexation of Crimea and further Russian-Ukrainian War

form of assassination carried by governments against their perceived enemies

euphemism for program of systematic torture by U.S government's military

purported rationale or justification for European colonialism

state-sponsored abduction

use of military force to compel peace in a conflict

1969 referendum in Western New Guinea

Russian government euphemism for the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Nazi plan for Germanification of Bohemia and Moravia

thumb|Himmler (front right, beside prisoner) while visiting the Dachau Concentration Camp in 1936 '''' (, "special treatment") is any sort of preferential treatment. However, the word Sonderbehandlung was used as a euphemism for mass murder by Nazi functionaries and the SS, who commonly used the abbreviation S.B.'' in documentation. It first came to prominence during Aktion T4, where SS doctors killed mentally ill and disabled patients between 1939 and 1941, and was one of a number of nonspecific words the Nazis used to document mass murder and genocide. Another notable example was .

state of emergency in the Republic of Ireland during World War II

thumb|250px|Heinrich Himmler's report Number 51 from 1 October 1942 to 1 December 1942 detailing the murder of "bandits" and Jews in [[Southern Russia, Ukraine, and the Bialystok District]] In German military history, ' (), also referred to as Nazi security warfare' during World War II, refers to the concept and military doctrine of countering resistance or insurrection in the rear area during wartime with extreme brutality. The doctrine provided a rationale for disregarding the established laws of war and for targeting any number of groups, from armed guerrillas to civilians, as "bandits" or

Israeli military tactic

number of people killed in a particular event

military action taken without a declaration of war

system of brothels set up by the Japanese government for US occupation forces

Russian police euphemism for torture

sometimes called the "Red Terror", a period in Yugoslavia (1941–42) during World War II

1947 and 1948–1949 Dutch military offensives on Java and Sumatra