World War II atrocities
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World War II atrocities encompass the widespread war crimes, genocides, and crimes against humanity committed by Axis and, to a lesser extent, Allied powers during the global conflict from 1939 to 1945.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| World War II atrocities canonical | 3 |
| World War II crimes of Nazi Germany | 1 |
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Target entity: World War II atrocities Context triple: [Holocaust museums, focusesOn, World War II atrocities]
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A.
Nazi war crimes
Nazi war crimes were systematic atrocities—including mass murder, torture, and persecution—committed by the Nazi regime and its agencies across Europe before and during World War II.
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Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered six million Jews and millions of other targeted groups across Europe.
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C.
World War II
World War II was a global conflict from 1939 to 1945 involving most of the world’s nations, marked by unprecedented destruction, the Holocaust, and the use of atomic weapons, and resulting in a major reshaping of the international order.
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D.
World War II occupation
World War II occupation refers to the period during the Second World War when Nazi Germany and its allies militarily controlled and administered foreign territories, often imposing harsh regimes of repression, exploitation, and persecution.
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E.
German war of annihilation in the East
The German war of annihilation in the East was Nazi Germany’s ideologically driven campaign during World War II to conquer, exploit, and systematically destroy populations in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, particularly targeting Jews and other groups deemed undesirable.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: World War II atrocities Target entity description: World War II atrocities encompass the widespread war crimes, genocides, and crimes against humanity committed by Axis and, to a lesser extent, Allied powers during the global conflict from 1939 to 1945.
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A.
Nazi war crimes
Nazi war crimes were systematic atrocities—including mass murder, torture, and persecution—committed by the Nazi regime and its agencies across Europe before and during World War II.
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B.
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered six million Jews and millions of other targeted groups across Europe.
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C.
World War II
World War II was a global conflict from 1939 to 1945 involving most of the world’s nations, marked by unprecedented destruction, the Holocaust, and the use of atomic weapons, and resulting in a major reshaping of the international order.
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D.
World War II occupation
World War II occupation refers to the period during the Second World War when Nazi Germany and its allies militarily controlled and administered foreign territories, often imposing harsh regimes of repression, exploitation, and persecution.
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E.
German war of annihilation in the East
The German war of annihilation in the East was Nazi Germany’s ideologically driven campaign during World War II to conquer, exploit, and systematically destroy populations in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, particularly targeting Jews and other groups deemed undesirable.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (121)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime against humanity
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historical event ⓘ war crime ⓘ |
| alsoInvolved |
Allied forces
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surface form:
Allied powers
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| hasTemporalExtent | 1939–1945 ⓘ |
| includesEvent |
bombing of Dresden
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surface form:
Allied bombing of Dresden
Tokyo air raids ⓘ
surface form:
Allied bombing of Tokyo
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ⓘ
surface form:
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Bataan Death March ⓘ Biological warfare experiments by Unit 731 ⓘ Bombing of civilians ⓘ Comfort women system ⓘ Concentration camps ⓘ Death marches of concentration camp prisoners ⓘ Deliberate starvation of civilians ⓘ Denial of asylum to refugees ⓘ Ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe ⓘ Extermination camps ⓘ Forced labor of civilians ⓘ Forced population transfers ⓘ Gas chamber killings ⓘ Ghettoization of Jews ⓘ Holocaust ⓘ Department of Justice internment camps ⓘ
surface form:
Internment of German Americans
Internment of German Canadians ⓘ Internment of Italian Canadians ⓘ Japanese American internment ⓘ
surface form:
Internment of Japanese Americans
Internment of Japanese Canadians ⓘ Jasenovac concentration camp atrocities ⓘ Katyn massacre ⓘ Killing of shipwreck survivors ⓘ Lidice massacre ⓘ Malmedy massacre ⓘ Mass deportations ⓘ Mass executions ⓘ Mass rapes during and after the Battle of Berlin ⓘ Mass shootings ⓘ Oradour-sur-Glane massacre ⓘ
surface form:
Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane
Massacres in Albania ⓘ Massacres in Belgium ⓘ Massacres in Bulgaria ⓘ Massacres in Burma ⓘ Massacres in China ⓘ Nanjing Massacre ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres in China by Imperial Japan
Massacres in Czechoslovakia ⓘ Massacres in Denmark ⓘ Massacres in France ⓘ Massacre of Kos ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres in Greece
Massacres in Greece by Axis forces ⓘ Massacres in Hong Kong 1941 ⓘ Massacres in Hungary ⓘ Laha massacre ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres in Indonesia
Massacres in Italy ⓘ Sook Ching massacre ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres in Malaya
Manila massacre ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres in Manila 1945
Massacres in New Guinea ⓘ Massacres in Norway ⓘ Massacres in Poland by Nazi Germany ⓘ Massacres in Romania ⓘ Sook Ching massacre ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres in Singapore 1942
Massacres in Southeast Asia ⓘ Massacres in Southeast Asia by Imperial Japan ⓘ Massacres in Yugoslavia ⓘ Massacres in Yugoslavia ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres in Yugoslavia by Axis forces
German AB-Aktion in Poland ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres in occupied Poland
Massacres in Yugoslavia ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres in the Balkans
Massacres in the Netherlands ⓘ Massacres in the Philippines ⓘ Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres in the Soviet Union
Massacres in the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany ⓘ Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres of Jews by Einsatzgruppen
Nanjing Massacre ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres of Nanking Safety Zone refugees
Massacres of civilians during anti-partisan operations ⓘ Volhynia massacres ⓘ
surface form:
Massacres of ethnic Poles by Ukrainian nationalists
Massacres of prisoners of war ⓘ Medical experiments on prisoners ⓘ Nanjing Massacre ⓘ Naval war crimes ⓘ POW camp abuses ⓘ Persecution of African civilians in Italian colonies ⓘ Persecution of Burmese civilians ⓘ Persecution of Chinese civilians ⓘ Persecution of Filipino civilians ⓘ Persecution of Indonesian civilians ⓘ Persecution of Jewish refugees ⓘ Persecution of Korean civilians ⓘ Persecution of LGBTQ+ people ⓘ Persecution of Malayan civilians ⓘ Japanese occupation of Pacific islands ⓘ
surface form:
Persecution of Pacific Islander civilians
Persecution of Roma people ⓘ Persecution of Slavic populations ⓘ Persecution of Vietnamese civilians ⓘ Persecution of disabled people ⓘ Persecution of political opponents ⓘ Persecution of religious minorities ⓘ Porajmos ⓘ Scorched earth policies ⓘ Siege of Leningrad ⓘ
surface form:
Siege of Leningrad starvation policy
Sinking of hospital ships ⓘ Sook Ching massacre ⓘ Soviet war crimes ⓘ Strategic bombing of cities ⓘ Systematic plunder of occupied territories ⓘ Unit 731 human experimentation ⓘ Use of chemical weapons in China by Japan ⓘ Nazi camp system ⓘ
surface form:
Use of slave labor in Nazi Germany
Warsaw Ghetto ⓘ
surface form:
Warsaw Ghetto liquidation
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| ledTo |
Geneva Conventions
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surface form:
Geneva Conventions of 1949
GenocideConvention1948 ⓘ
surface form:
Genocide Convention
Universal Declaration of Human Rights ⓘ development of international humanitarian law ⓘ |
| partOf | World War II ⓘ |
| perpetratedBy |
Axis powers
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Fascist Italy ⓘ Imperial Japan ⓘ Independent State of Croatia ⓘ Nazi Germany ⓘ French State (Vichy regime) ⓘ
surface form:
Vichy France
collaborationist regimes ⓘ |
| prosecutedBy |
Nuremberg trials
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International Military Tribunal for the Far East ⓘ
surface form:
Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
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Subject: World War II atrocities Description of subject: World War II atrocities encompass the widespread war crimes, genocides, and crimes against humanity committed by Axis and, to a lesser extent, Allied powers during the global conflict from 1939 to 1945.
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