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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crime against humanity
historical event
war crime
alsoInvolved Allied forces
surface form: Allied powers
hasTemporalExtent 1939–1945
includesEvent bombing of Dresden
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
ledTo Geneva Conventions
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
Fascist Italy
Imperial Japan
Independent State of Croatia
Nazi Germany
French State (Vichy regime)
surface form: Vichy France

collaborationist regimes
prosecutedBy Nuremberg trials
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
surface form: Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal

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Holocaust museums focusesOn World War II atrocities
Polish Jews sufferedEvent World War II atrocities
Auschwitz I (Stammlager) category World War II atrocities
this entity surface form: World War II crimes of Nazi Germany
Apt Pupil subjectMatter World War II atrocities