German war crimes
Encyclopedia
The government of Germany
ordered, organized and condoned several war crimes in both World War I
and World War II
. The most notable of these is the Holocaust
in which millions of people were murdered or died from abuse and neglect, 60% of them (approximately 6 million out of 10 million) Jews
. However, millions also died as a result of other German actions in those two conflicts.
on the British
seaport towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool
, West Hartlepool
, and Whitby
. The attack resulted in 137 fatalities and 592 casualties. The raid was as a violation of the 1907 Hague Convention provisions that prohibited naval bombardments of undefended towns without warning, because only Hartlepool was protected by shore batteries. Germany was a signatory of the Hague Convention. Another attack followed on 26 April 1916 on the coastal towns of Yarmouth and Lowestoft
but both were important naval bases and defended by shore batteries. .
was instituted in 1915 in response to the British blockade of Germany in the North Sea. Prize rules, which were codified under the 1907 Hague Convention—such as those that required commerce raiders to warn their targets and allow time for the crew to board lifeboats—were disregarded and commercial vessels were sunk regardless of nationality, cargo, or destination. Following the sinking of the on 7 May 1915 and subsequent public outcry in various neutral countries, including the United States
, the practice was withdrawn.
, after occupying France, Nazis seized Allied documentation regarding German war crimes in World War I and destroyed monuments commemorating them
or Roma. Since millions of Jews lived in pre-war Poland
, most camps were located in the area of General Government
in occupied Poland for logistical
reasons. It also allowed the Nazis to transport the German Jews outside of the German main territory.
Notorious war criminals=
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
ordered, organized and condoned several war crimes in both World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
and World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. The most notable of these is the Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
in which millions of people were murdered or died from abuse and neglect, 60% of them (approximately 6 million out of 10 million) Jews
Jews
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
. However, millions also died as a result of other German actions in those two conflicts.
Bombardment of English coastal towns
The raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby, which took place on December 16, 1914, was an attack by the German navyGerman Navy
The German Navy is the navy of Germany and is part of the unified Bundeswehr .The German Navy traces its roots back to the Imperial Fleet of the revolutionary era of 1848 – 52 and more directly to the Prussian Navy, which later evolved into the Northern German Federal Navy...
on the British
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....
seaport towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool
Hartlepool
Hartlepool is a town and port in North East England.It was founded in the 7th century AD, around the Northumbrian monastery of Hartlepool Abbey. The village grew during the Middle Ages and developed a harbour which served as the official port of the County Palatine of Durham. A railway link from...
, West Hartlepool
West Hartlepool
This article refers to the place; for the Rugby Football Club see West Hartlepool R.F.C.West Hartlepool refers to the western part of the what has since the 1960s been known as the borough of Hartlepool in North East England...
, and Whitby
Whitby
Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a combined maritime, mineral and tourist heritage, and is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey where Caedmon, the...
. The attack resulted in 137 fatalities and 592 casualties. The raid was as a violation of the 1907 Hague Convention provisions that prohibited naval bombardments of undefended towns without warning, because only Hartlepool was protected by shore batteries. Germany was a signatory of the Hague Convention. Another attack followed on 26 April 1916 on the coastal towns of Yarmouth and Lowestoft
Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft
The Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft was a naval battle fought during the First World War between the German Empire and the British Empire in the North Sea....
but both were important naval bases and defended by shore batteries. .
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Unrestricted submarine warfareUnrestricted submarine warfare
Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchantmen without warning, as opposed to attacks per prize rules...
was instituted in 1915 in response to the British blockade of Germany in the North Sea. Prize rules, which were codified under the 1907 Hague Convention—such as those that required commerce raiders to warn their targets and allow time for the crew to board lifeboats—were disregarded and commercial vessels were sunk regardless of nationality, cargo, or destination. Following the sinking of the on 7 May 1915 and subsequent public outcry in various neutral countries, including the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, the practice was withdrawn.
Attempts to destroy evidence of German crimes
During World War IIWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, after occupying France, Nazis seized Allied documentation regarding German war crimes in World War I and destroyed monuments commemorating them
World War II
- The HolocaustThe HolocaustThe Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
of the Jews, the Action T-4 killing of the disabled and the Porajomas of the Gypsies. Not all the crimes committed during the Holocaust and similar mass atrocities were war crimes. Telford TaylorTelford TaylorTelford Taylor was an American lawyer best known for his role in the Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, his opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, and his outspoken criticism of U.S...
(The U.S. prosecutor in the German High Command case at the Nuremberg TrialsNuremberg TrialsThe Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany....
and Chief Counsel for the twelve trials before the U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunals) explained in 1982:
- Le Paradis massacreLe Paradis massacreThe Le Paradis massacre was a war crime committed by members of the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under the command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein...
, May 1940, British soldiers of the Royal Norfolk RegimentRoyal Norfolk RegimentThe Royal Norfolk Regiment, originally formed as the Norfolk Regiment, was an infantry regiment of the British Army. The Norfolk Regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as the county regiment of Norfolk...
, captured by the SS and subsequently murdered. Fritz KnoechleinFritz KnoechleinFritz Knöchlein was an SS-Obersturmbannführer during the Second World War who was subsequently convicted and executed for war crimes.-Biography:Fritz Knöchlein joined the SS in 1934...
tried, found guilty and hanged. - Wormhoudt massacreWormhoudt massacreThe Wormhoudt massacre was the mass murder of 80 British and French POWs by the Waffen SS during the Battle of France in May 1940.-Fighting:...
, May 1940, British and French soldiers captured by the SS and subsequently murdered. No one found guilty of the crime. - d'Ardenne Massacres, June 1944 Canadian soldiers captured by the SS and Murdered by 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend12th SS Panzer Division HitlerjugendThe 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend was a German Waffen SS armoured division during World War II. The Hitlerjugend was unique because the majority of its junior enlisted men were drawn from members of the Hitler Youth, while the senior NCOs and officers were generally veterans of the Eastern...
. SS General Kurt Meyer (Panzermeyer)Kurt Meyer (Panzermeyer)Kurt Meyer, nicknamed "Panzermeyer", served as an officer in the Waffen-SS during the Second World War. He saw action in many major battles, including the Invasion of France, Operation Barbarossa, and the Battle of Normandy.Meyer was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and...
sentenced to be shot 1946; sentence commuted; released 1954 - Malmedy massacreMalmedy massacreThe Malmedy massacre was a war crime in which 84 American prisoners of war were murdered by their German captors during World War II. The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper , a German combat unit, during the Battle of the Bulge.The massacre, as well as...
, December 1944, United States POWs captured by Kampfgruppe Peiper were murdered outside of MalmedyMalmedyMalmedy is a municipality of Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region, Province of Liège. It belongs to the French Community of Belgium, within which it is French-speaking with facilities for German-speakers. On January 1, 2006 Malmedy had a total population of 11,829...
, BelgiumBelgiumBelgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
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- Gardelegen (war crime)Gardelegen (war crime)On April 13, 1945, German SS and Luftwaffe troops, retreating from the Allied advance, burned alive 1016 political and military prisoners near the north German town of Gardelegen, between Berlin and Hannover. The crime was discovered two days later by F Company, 2d Battalion, 405th Regiment, U.S...
- Oradour-sur-GlaneOradour-sur-GlaneOradour-sur-Glane is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company...
- Massacre of KalavrytaMassacre of KalavrytaThe Holocaust of Kalavryta , or the Massacre of Kalavryta , refers to the extermination of the male population and the subsequent total destruction of the town of Kalavryta, in Greece, by German occupying forces during World War II on 13 December 1943...
- The treatment of Soviet POWs throughout the war, who were not given the protections and guarantees of the Geneva Convention
- Unrestricted submarine warfareUnrestricted submarine warfareUnrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchantmen without warning, as opposed to attacks per prize rules...
against merchant shipping. - The intentional destruction of major medieval churches of Novgorod, of monasteries in the Moscow region (e.g., of New Jerusalem MonasteryNew Jerusalem MonasteryThe New Jerusalem Monastery or Novoiyerusalimsky Monastery , also known as the Voskresensky Monastery, is a male monastery, located in the town of Istra in Moscow Oblast, Russia....
) and of the imperial palaces around St. Petersburg (many of them were left by the post-war authorities in ruins or simply demolished). - The campaign of extermination of Slavic population in the occupied territories. Several thousand villages were burned with their entire population (e.g., Khatyn massacreKhatyn massacreKhatyn, Chatyń was a village in Belarus, in Lahojsk district, Minsk Voblast. On March 22, 1943, the population of the village was massacred during World War II by the 118th Schutzmannschaft battalion, formed in July 1942 in Kiev, mostly from Ukrainian collaborators, prisoners of war and...
in BelarusBelarusBelarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
). Every fourth inhabitant of Belarus did not survive the German occupation. - Commando OrderCommando OrderThe Commando Order was issued by Adolf Hitler on 18 October 1942 stating that all Allied commandos encountered by German forces in Europe and Africa should be killed immediately, even if in uniform or if they attempted to surrender...
, the secret order issued by Hitler in 1942 stating that Allied combatants encountered during commando operations should be killed to the last man ("bis auf den letzen Mann niederzumachen"), even if they were unarmed or intending to surrender.
Nazi concentration camps
After 1939, with the beginning of the Second World War, concentration camps increasingly became places where the enemies of the Nazis were enslaved, starved, tortured and killed. During the War concentration camps for “undesirables” spread throughout Europe. New camps were created near centers of dense “undesirable” populations, often focusing on areas with large communities of Jews, Poles, CommunistsCommunism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
or Roma. Since millions of Jews lived in pre-war Poland
History of the Jews in Poland
The history of the Jews in Poland dates back over a millennium. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jewish community in the world. Poland was the centre of Jewish culture thanks to a long period of statutory religious tolerance and social autonomy. This ended with the...
, most camps were located in the area of General Government
General Government
The General Government was an area of Second Republic of Poland under Nazi German rule during World War II; designated as a separate region of the Third Reich between 1939–1945...
in occupied Poland for logistical
Logistics
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
reasons. It also allowed the Nazis to transport the German Jews outside of the German main territory.
Notorious war criminals=
- Heinrich GrossHeinrich GrossHeinrich Gross was an Austrian psychiatrist, medical doctor and neurologist, best known for his proven involvement in the killing of at least nine children with physical, mental and/or emotional/behavioral characteristics considered "unclean" by the Nazi regime, under its Euthanasia Program...
- Karl LinnasKarl LinnasKarl Linnas was an Estonian who was sentenced to capital punishment during the Holocaust trials in Soviet Estonia in 1961. He was later deported from the United States to the Soviet Union...
- Josef MengeleJosef MengeleJosef Rudolf Mengele , also known as the Angel of Death was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He earned doctorates in anthropology from Munich University and in medicine from Frankfurt University...
- Carl Hans Heinze SennhennCarl Hans Heinze SennhennCarl "Hans Heinze" Sennhenn was a Nazi German psychiatrist and eugenicist.Hans Heinze was the director of the mental institution Heilanstalt Brandenburg-Görden, where he supervised the murder by injection, starvation and poisoning of thousands of children whose brains he then supplied to Nazi...
- Otmar Freiherr von VerschuerOtmar Freiherr von VerschuerOtmar Freiherr von Verschuer was a German human biologist and eugenicist concerned primarily with "racial hygiene" and twin research...
- Alfred TrzebinskiAlfred TrzebinskiAlfred Trzebinski was an SS-physician at the Auschwitz, Majdanek and Neuengamme concentration camps in Nazi Germany. He was sentenced to death and executed for his involvement in war crimes committed at the Neuengamme subcamps.-Life:Trzebinski was born in Jutroschin, Province of Posen...
Notorious massacres & war crimes of WWII (sorted by location)= - The HolocaustThe HolocaustThe Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
- Nazi human experimentationNazi human experimentationNazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on large numbers of prisoners by the Nazi German regime in its concentration camps mainly in the early 1940s, during World War II and the Holocaust. Prisoners were coerced into participating: they did not willingly volunteer and there...
France
- Ascq massacreAscq massacreThe Ascq massacre is a massacre of 86 men on April 1944 in Ascq by the Nazis during the Second World War.The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend set out on rail trucks for Normandy at the end of March, 1944. On April 1944, 1st, the train was approaching the gare d'Ascq when an explosion blew the...
- Le Paradis massacreLe Paradis massacreThe Le Paradis massacre was a war crime committed by members of the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under the command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein...
- Maillé massacreMaillé massacreThe Maillé Massacre refers to the murder on 25 August 1944 of 124 of the 500 residents of the commune of Maillé in the department of the Indre-et-Loire. Following an ambush a few days before and in reprisals against activities of the French Resistance, Second Lieutenant Gustav Schlüter and his men...
- Maillé, Indre-et-LoireMaillé, Indre-et-LoireMaillé is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.-History:On 25 August 1944, Nazi German soldiers killed 124 people and razed the village...
- Oradour-sur-GlaneOradour-sur-GlaneOradour-sur-Glane is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company...
- Tulle murdersTulle murdersThe Tulle Murders refer to the actions committed by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in June 1944, at the end of World War II. After a successful FTP offensive on 7 and 8 June 1944, the arrival of Das Reich forces forced the guerillas to evacuate the city...
- Wormhoudt massacreWormhoudt massacreThe Wormhoudt massacre was the mass murder of 80 British and French POWs by the Waffen SS during the Battle of France in May 1940.-Fighting:...
Greece
- Distomo massacreDistomo massacreThe Distomo massacre was a Nazi war crime perpetrated by members of the Waffen-SS in the village of Distomo, Greece, during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II.-History:...
- Drakeia massacreDrakeia massacreThe Drakeia massacre refers to the mass execution of 118 men by SS soldiers in the village of Drakeia, located on Mount Pelion, in Thessaly. Out of the 350 houses, 58 were destroyed. It was part of the multiple Nazi anti-partisan reprisals in occupied Greece...
- Massacre of KalavrytaMassacre of KalavrytaThe Holocaust of Kalavryta , or the Massacre of Kalavryta , refers to the extermination of the male population and the subsequent total destruction of the town of Kalavryta, in Greece, by German occupying forces during World War II on 13 December 1943...
- Razing of KandanosRazing of KandanosThe Razing of Kandanos or the Holocaust of Kandanos refers to the complete destruction of the village of Kandanos in Western Crete and the killing of about 180 of its inhabitants on 3 June 1941 by German occupying forces during World War II...
- Holocaust of KedrosHolocaust of KedrosThe Holocaust of Kedros , also known as the Holocaust of Amari , refers to an operation mounted by Nazi German forces against the civilian residents of nine villages located in the Amari Valley on the Greek island of Crete during its occupation by the Axis in World War II...
- Holocaust of ViannosHolocaust of ViannosThe Holocaust of Viannos refers to a mass extermination campaign launched by Nazi forces against the civilian residents of around 20 villages located in the areas of east Viannos and west Ierapetra provinces on the Greek island of Crete during World War II. The killings, with a death toll in...
- KommenoKommenoKommeno is a village and a former community in the Arta peripheral unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nikolaos Skoufas, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 835 . During the Axis Occupation of Greece in World War II, the village was...
- Massacre of KondomariMassacre of KondomariThe Massacre of Kondomari refers to the execution of male civilians from the village of Kondomari in Crete by an ad hoc firing squad consisting of German paratroopers on 2 June 1941 during World War II. The shooting was the first of a long series of mass reprisals in Crete and was also the first...
- Massacre of the Acqui DivisionMassacre of the Acqui DivisionThe Massacre of the Acqui Division , also known as the Cephalonia Massacre , was the mass execution of the men of the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division by the Germans on the island of Kefalonia, Greece, in September 1943, following the Italian armistice during the Second World War. About 5000...
- Mesovouno massacreMesovouno massacreThe Mesovouno massacre refers to two massacres perpetrated by members of the Wehrmacht in the village of Mesovouno in Ptolemaida, Greece, during the Axis occupation of Greece, carried out on 23 October 1941 and 22 April 1944....
- Paramythia executionsParamythia executionsThe Paramythia executions, also known as the Paramythia massacre was a combined Nazi and Cham Albanian war crime perpetrated by members of the 1st Mountain Division and the Muslim Cham militia in the town of Paramythia and its surrounding region, during the Axis occupation of Greece...
- The Massacre of Chortiatis
Italy
- List of massacres in Italy
- Ardeatine massacreArdeatine massacreThe Fosse Ardeatine massacre was a mass execution carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome....
- Boves massacreBoves massacreThe " Boves massacre " was an alleged World War II war crime that took place on 8 September 1943 in the comune of Boves, Italy. Up to 45 Italian civilians were killed and 350 houses were destroyed by artillery fire of the Waffen-SS under the command of SS-Sturmbannführer Joachim Peiper...
- Marzabotto massacreMarzabotto massacreThe Marzabotto massacre was a World War II mass murder of at least 770 civilians by Germans, which took place in the territory around the small village of Marzabotto, in the mountainous area south of Bologna...
- Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacreSant'Anna di Stazzema massacreThe Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre was a Nazi German atrocity in the village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, in the course of an operation against the Italian resistance movement in 1944, during the Italian Campaign of World War II.-Facts:...
Poland
- The Holocaust in Poland
- Expulsion of Poles by Nazi GermanyExpulsion of Poles by Nazi GermanyThe Expulsions of Poles by Nazi Germany during World War II was a massive Nazi German operation consisting of the forced resettlement of over 1.7 million ethnic Poles from all territories of occupied Poland between 1939–1944 with the aim of their geopolitical Germanization .Adolf Hitler had plans...
- Planned destruction of WarsawPlanned destruction of WarsawThe planned destruction of Warsaw refers to the largely realised plans by Nazi Germany to completely raze the city. The plan was put into full motion after the Warsaw Uprising in 1944...
- German AB-Aktion in Poland
- Intelligenzaktion Pommern
- Pacification Operations in German occupied Poland
- Operation TannenbergOperation TannenbergOperation Tannenberg was the codename for one of the extermination actions directed at the Polish people during World War II, part of the Generalplan Ost...
- Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz)Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz)Valley of Death in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, is a site of Nazi German mass murder and a mass grave of 5,000 – 6,600 Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by the local Germans and the Gestapo...
- Expulsion of Poles by GermanyExpulsion of Poles by GermanyThe Expulsion of Poles by Germany was a prolonged anti-Polish campaign of ethnic cleansing by violent and terror-inspiring means lasting nearly a century. It began with the concept of Pan-Germanism developed in early 19th century and continued in the racial policy of Nazi Germany asserting the...
- Ponary massacrePonary massacreThe Ponary massacre was the mass-murder of 100,000 people, mostly Polish Jews, by German SD and SS and Lithuanian Nazi collaborators Sonderkommando collaborators...
- Gmina Aleksandrów, Lublin VoivodeshipGmina Aleksandrów, Lublin VoivodeshipGmina Aleksandrów is a rural gmina in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Aleksandrów, which lies approximately south-east of Biłgoraj and south of the regional capital Lublin....
- Gmina BeskoGmina BeskoGmina Besko is a rural gmina in Sanok County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Besko, which lies approximately west of Sanok and south of the regional capital Rzeszów. The gmina also contains the villages of Mymoń and Poręby.The gmina covers an area...
- Gmina GidleGmina GidleGmina Gidle is a rural gmina in Radomsko County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Gidle, which lies approximately south of Radomsko and south of the regional capital Łódź....
- Gmina Kłecko
- Gmina Ryczywół
- Gmina SiennicaGmina SiennicaGmina Siennica is a rural gmina in Mińsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Siennica, which lies approximately 10 kilometres south-east of Mińsk Mazowiecki and 44 km south-east of Warsaw.The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total...
- Huta Pieniacka massacreHuta Pieniacka massacreThe Huta Pieniacka massacre was a punitive military operation against the inhabitants of the ethnically Polish village Huta Pieniacka, located in western Ukraine, which took place on February 28, 1944. Estimates of the number of victims range from 500 to 1,200.Polish and Ukrainian historians...
- Jedwabne pogromJedwabne pogromThe Jedwabne pogrom of July 1941 during German occupation of Poland, was a massacre of at least 340 Polish Jews of all ages. These are the official findings of the Institute of National Remembrance, "confirmed by the number of victims in the two graves, according to the estimate of the...
- Jeziorko woodland cemeteryJeziorko woodland cemeteryWoodland cemetery in Jeziorko village in the Northeastern part of Poland is located approximately from the town of Łomża along Route 668. The remains of victims murdered by the Nazi troops rest in the cemetery which is among very few with almost completely documented history of events that...
- Lviv pogromsLviv pogromsThe Lviv pogroms were two massacres of Jews living in and near in the city of Lwów, the occupied Republic of Poland , that took place from 30 June to 2 July and 25–29 July 1941 during World War II. 700 Jews were killed in the rioting by some Ukrainian nationalists and Ukrainian militia and further...
Ukraine
- The Holocaust in Ukraine
- Babi YarBabi YarBabi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by the Nazis during their campaign against the Soviet Union. The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place on September 29–30, 1941, wherein 33,771 Jews were killed in a...
- List of victims of the Babi Yar massacre
- Drobytsky Yar
Please sort these massacres into the upper sections
- Daugavpils GhettoDaugavpils GhettoFollowing the occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941, the Daugavpils Ghetto was established in an old fortress near Daugavpils. Daugavpils is the second largest city in Latvia and the principal city of the Latgalia region. Daugavpils was located in southeastern Latvia on the...
murders by Einsatzkommando 3 and Lithuanian partisansLithuanian partisansThe Lithuanian partisans can refer to various irregular military units in different historical periods active in Lithuania against foreign invaders and occupiers:...
(9,585 people, including children) - UkmergėUkmerge-Early history:Ukmergė was first mentioned as a settlement in 1333. It was essentially a wooden fortress that stood on a hill, near the confluence of the Vilkmergė River and the Šventoji River. Ukmergė was attacked by the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Order in 1333, 1365, 1378, 1386, and even...
- Lidice in the Kulmhof extermination camp
- 1 September, MarijampolėMarijampoleMarijampolė is an industrial city and the capital of the Marijampolė County in the south of Lithuania, bordering Poland and Russian Kaliningrad oblast, and Lake Vištytis. The population of Marijampolė is 48,700...
massacre (1,404 children) - 2 September, Wilno massacre (817 children)
- 4 September, Čekiškė massacre (60 children)
- 4 September, SeredžiusSeredžiusSeredžius is a town in Lithuania, situated on the right bank of the Neman River near its confluence with Dubysa River. According to the 2001 census, it had population of 749.-Name:...
massacre (126 children) - 4 September, VeliuonaVeliuonaVeliuona is a small town on the Nemunas River in the Jurbarkas district municipality in Lithuania.Veliuona was first mentioned in 1291 in the chronicle of Peter of Duisburg....
massacre (86 children) - 4 September, ZapyškisZapyškisZapyškis is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania on the right bank of the Neman River. As of 2001 it had a population of 254. The town is famous for its old early Gothic church , which is also depicted in town's coat of arms. A new church was built in 1942.-References:*This article...
massacre (13 children) - 6 September – 8 September, RaseiniaiRaseiniaiRaseiniai is a city in Lithuania. It is located on the south eastern foothills of the Samogitians highland, some north from the Kaunas–Klaipėda highway.- Grand Duchy of Lithuania :...
massacre (415 children) - 6 September – 8 September, JurborkJurbarkasJurbarkas is a city in Tauragė County, Lithuania. It is on the right-hand shore of the Neman River at its confluence with the tributaries Mituva and Imsre...
massacre (412 people, including children) - 28 September – 17 October, Pleszczenice-Bischolin-Szack (Šacak)-BobrBóbrBóbr is a river which runs through the north of the Czech Republic and the southwest of Poland, a left tributary of the Oder River, with a length of and a basin area of .The Bóbr originates in the Rýchory mountains in the southeast of the Karkonosze range, where the source is...
-UzdaUzdaUzda -History:The town was first mentioned in 1450. From 1938 it had the status of "urban-type settlement" and received its town status in 1999.-Geography:...
(White Ruthenia) massacre (1,126 children)
- 2 October, ŽagarėŽagareŽagarė is a city located in the Joniškis district, northern Lithuania, close to the border with Latvia. It has a population of about 2,000.-Names:Foreign renderings of the name include: , , .-History:The foundation of Žagarė dates back to the 12th century...
massacre (496 children)
- 29 October, Kaunas massacre (4,273 children)
- 2 November, Mass murder of children in PärnuPärnuPärnu is a city in southwestern Estonia on the coast of Pärnu Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea. It is a popular summer vacation resort with many hotels, restaurants, and large beaches. The Pärnu River flows through the city and drains into the Gulf of Riga...
synagogue (34 children) - 25 November, KauenKaunasKaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the center of a powiat in Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413. During Russian Empire occupation...
-F.IXNinth FortThe Ninth Fort is a stronghold in the northern part of Šilainiai elderate, Kaunas, Lithuania. It is a part of the Kaunas Fortress, which was constructed in the late 19th century. During the occupation of Kaunas and the rest of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, the fort was used as a prison and...
massacre (175 children)
1942
- 27 March Murder of Pliner children (Holocaust in EstoniaHolocaust in EstoniaThe Holocaust in Estonia refers to the Nazi crimes during the occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany. There were, prior to the war, approximately 4,300 Estonian Jews. After the Soviet 1940 occupation about 10% of Jewish population were deported to Siberia along with other Estonians...
; 3 children) - 9 – 12 May, Kliczów-Bobrujsk massacre (520 people, including children)
- Beginning of June, Słowodka-Bobrujsk massacre (1,000 people, including children)
- 15 June Borki (powiat białostocki) massacre (1,741 people, including children)
- 21 June Zbyszin massacre (1,076 people, including children)
- 25 June Timkowiczi massacre (900 people, including children)
- 26 June StudenkaStudénkaStudénka is a town of 10,210 residents in Nový Jičín District of the Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It is on the mainline railway between Kraków and Prague, and was the scene of the Studénka train disaster in August 2008. The town is situated on both sides of the historical border...
massacre (836 people, including children)
- 18 July, JelskJelskJelsk is a town in Homiel Voblast, Belarus....
massacre (1,000 people, including children) - 15 July – 7 August, Operation AdlerOperation AdlerMilitary history records three events called Operation Adler, the name meaning Eagle in German:# A series of Luftwaffe attacks beginning on 13 August 1940 known as Operation Eagle Attack set to begin on Adlertag .# Anti-partisan operation centered on the Chechivichi region of Belarus begun on 20...
(Bobrujsk, Mohylew, Berezyna; 1,381 people, including children) - 14 – 20 August, Operation GreifOperation GreifOperation Greif was a special false flag operation commanded by Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny during the Battle of the Bulge. The operation was the brainchild of Adolf Hitler, and its purpose was to capture one or more of the bridges over the Meuse river before they could be destroyed...
(Orsza, Witebsk; 796 people, including children) - 22 August – 21 September, Operation Sumpffieber (White Ruthenia; 10,063 people, including children)
- August, BereźneBerezneBerezne is a city in Rivne Oblast, Ukraine, located on the Sluch River north of Rivne. It is the administrative centre of the Berezne Raion.- History :Berezne was established in 1445 within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.-Jews of Berezne:...
massacre - 22 September – 26 September, Małoryta massacre; 4,038 people, including children)
- 23 September – 3 October, Operation Blitz (Połock, Witebsk; 567 people, including children)
- 11 – 23 October, Operation Karlsbad (Orsza, Witebsk; 1,051 people, including children)
- 23 – 29 November, Operation Nürnberg (Dubrowka; 2,974 people, including children)
- 10 – 21 December, Operation Hamburg (Niemen River-SzczaraSCARAThe SCARA acronym stands for Selective Compliant Assembly Robot Arm or Selective Compliant Articulated Robot Arm.In 1981, Sankyo Seiki, Pentel and NEC presented a completely new concept for assembly robots. The robot was developed under the guidance of Hiroshi Makino, a professor at the University...
River; 6,172 people, including children) - 22 – 29 December, Operation Altona (Słonim; 1,032 people, including children)
1943
- 6 – 14 January, Operation Franz (Grodsjanka; 2,025 people, including children)
- 10 – 11 January, Operation Peter (Kliczów, Kolbcza; 1,400 people, including children)
- 18 – 23 January, Słuck-MińskMinsk- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...
-CzerwieńCzerwieńCzerwień was a mediæval West Slavic settlement located near the site of modern Czermno near Tyszowce. In early Middle Ages the town was the administrative centre of the so-called Czerwień Towns , that is the region roughly correspondent to later Red Ruthenia. The town itself had been destroyed by a...
massacre (825 people, including children) - 28 January – 15 February, Operation Schneehase; Połock, Rossony, Krasnopole; 2,283 people, including children); 54; 37
- Until 28 January, Operation Erntefest I (CzerwieńCzerwieńCzerwień was a mediæval West Slavic settlement located near the site of modern Czermno near Tyszowce. In early Middle Ages the town was the administrative centre of the so-called Czerwień Towns , that is the region roughly correspondent to later Red Ruthenia. The town itself had been destroyed by a...
, Osipowicze; 1,228 people, including children) - Jaanuar, Operation EisbärOperation EisbärMilitary history records three Operation Eisbär, all conducted by the Germans in 1943. The name means Polar bear in German.They were:# German evacuation of the French island of Corsica on 3 October, 1943....
(between Briańsk and Dmitriev-Lgowski) - Until 1 February, Operation Waldwinter (Sirotino-Trudy; 1,627 people, including children)
- 8 – 26 February, Operation HornungOperation HornungOperation Hornung was an anti-partisan operation during the Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany, carried out in February 1943. It was directed against the area Hancewicze-Morocz-Lenin-Łuniniec, a thinly populated area of about 4,000 square kilometers southwest of Słuck on the southern border of...
(Lenin, Hancewicze; 12,897 people, including children) - Until 9 February, Operation Erntefest II (Słuck, Kopyl; 2,325 people, including children)
- 15 February – end of March, Operation Winterzauber (Oświeja, Latvian border; 3,904 people, including children)
- 22 February – 8 March, Operation Kugelblitz (Połock, Oświeja, Dryssa, Rossony; 3,780 people, including children)
- 12 March, Murder of Czesława Kwoka in KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau (1 child)
- Until 19 March, Operation Nixe (Ptycz, Mikaszewicze, PińskPinskPinsk , a town in Belarus, in the Polesia region, traversed by the river Pripyat, at the confluence of the Strumen and Pina rivers. The region was known as the Marsh of Pinsk. It is a fertile agricultural center. It lies south-west of Minsk. The population is about 130,000...
; 400 people, including children) - Until 21 March, Operation Föhn (PińskPinskPinsk , a town in Belarus, in the Polesia region, traversed by the river Pripyat, at the confluence of the Strumen and Pina rivers. The region was known as the Marsh of Pinsk. It is a fertile agricultural center. It lies south-west of Minsk. The population is about 130,000...
; 543 people, including children) - 21 March – 2 April, Operation DonnerkeilOperation DonnerkeilUnternehmen Donnerkeil was the codename for a German military operation of the Second World War. Donnerkeil was designed as an air superiority operation to support the Kriegsmarine Operation Cerberus, also known as the "Channel Dash".In 1941 Kriegsmarine surface vessels had carried out commerce...
(Połock, Witebsk; 542 people, including children) - 1 – 9 May, Operation Draufgänger II (Rudnja and Manyly forest; 680 people, including children)
- 17 – 21 May, Operation Maigewitter (Witebsk, SurażSurazSuraż is a town in north-eastern Poland situated in the Podlaskie Voivodeship since 1999 and, from 1975 to 1998, in the Białystok Voivodeship .- Buildings and structures :...
, GorodokGorodokGorodok may refer to:*Gorodok, alternative name of Haradok, Belarus*Gorodok, Russia, name of several inhabited localities in Russia-See also:*Horodok *Bely Gorodok, an urban-type settlement in Tver Oblast...
; 2,441 people, including children) - 20 May – 23 June, Operation CottbusOperation CottbusOperation Cottbus was an anti-partisan operation during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany. The operation began on May 20, 1943 during the World War II occupation of northern Belarus in the areas of Begoml, Lepel and Ushachy...
(Lepel, Begomel, Uszacz; 11,796 people, including children) - 23 May, Kielce cemetery massacreKielce cemetery massacreThe Kielce cemetery massacre refers to an event that occurred on May 23, 1943, in which 45 Jewish children who had survived the Kielce ghetto and concentration camps were brought to the Pakosz cemetery in Kielce, Poland and were murdered by German Nazis...
(45 children) - 27 May – 10 June, Operation Weichsel (Dniepr-Prypeć triangle, South-West of Homel; 4,018 people, including children)
- 13 – 16 June, Operation Ziethen (RzeczycaRzeczycaRzeczyca may refer to the following villages in Poland:*Rzeczyca, Polkowice County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship *Rzeczyca, Środa Śląska County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship...
; 160 people, including children) - 25 June – 27 July, Operation Seydlitz (Owrucz-Mozyrz; 5,106 people, including children)
- 30 July, Mozyrz massacre (501 people, including children)
- Until 14 July, Operation Günther (WoloszynWoloszynWołoszyn is a mountain massif in the Tatra Mountains in Poland It reaches 2,158 meters at its highest peak.Wołoszyn is part of the Polish Tatra National Park.- References :*...
, Lagoisk; 3,993 people, including children) - 13 July – 11 August, Operation Hermann (IwieIwieIwie is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Rzeczenica, within Człuchów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately west of Rzeczenica, north-west of Człuchów, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk....
, Nowogródek, WoloszynWoloszynWołoszyn is a mountain massif in the Tatra Mountains in Poland It reaches 2,158 meters at its highest peak.Wołoszyn is part of the Polish Tatra National Park.- References :*...
, Stołpce; 4,280 people, including children) - 3 August, Szczurowa massacreSzczurowa massacreThe massacre in Szczurowa was the murder of 93 Romani people , including children, women and the elderly, by German Nazi occupiers in the Polish village of Szczurowa on August 3, 1943. Between ten and twenty families of settled Romani had lived in Szczurowa for generations, alongside ethnic Poles...
(93 people, including children) - 14 September - 16th September, Holocaust of ViannosHolocaust of ViannosThe Holocaust of Viannos refers to a mass extermination campaign launched by Nazi forces against the civilian residents of around 20 villages located in the areas of east Viannos and west Ierapetra provinces on the Greek island of Crete during World War II. The killings, with a death toll in...
(ca. 500 people, including children) - 24 September – 10 October, Operation Fritz (Głębokie; 509 people, including children)
- 29 September, OstrówkiOstrówkiOstrówki may refer to the following places:*Ostrówki, Łódź Voivodeship *Ostrówki, Lublin Voivodeship *Ostrówki, Podlaskie Voivodeship *Ostrówki, Greater Poland Voivodeship...
massacre (246 children) - 29 September, Wola Ostrowiecka massacre (220 children)
- 9 October – 22 October, Stary Bychów massacre (1,769 people, including children)
- 1 November – 18 November, Operation Heinrich (Rossony, Połock, Idrica; 5,452 people, including children)
- December, Spasskoje massacre (628 people, including children)
- December, BiałyBelyBely , Belaya , or Beloye , a Russian surname meaning "white" in Russian, may refer to:-People:*Andrei Bely , pseudonym of Boris Bugayev, a Russian novelist, poet, and literary critic...
massacre (1,453 people, including children) - 20 December – 1 January 1944, Operation OttoOperation OttoOperation Otto was an Axis powers anti-partisan operation in Croatia in 1943. The objective was to destroy the Partisans operating out of the Grmeč Mountains in the Una-Sana bend area in West Bosnia southwest of the line Bosanski Novi - Prijedor....
(Oświeja; 1,920 people, including children)
1944
- 14 January, Oła massacre (1,758 people, including children)
- 22 January, BaikiBáikiBáiki: The International Sámi Journal is a biannual English-language publication that covers Sami culture, history, and current affairs. The coverage also includes the community affairs of the Sami in North America, estimated at some 30,000 people. The magazine was first published in 1991...
massacre (987 people, including children) - 3 – 15 February, Operation Wolfsjagd (Hłusk, Bobrujsk; 467 people, including children)
- 5 – 6 February, BaryczBaryczThe Barycz is a river in Greater Poland and Lower Silesian Voivodeships in western Poland. It is a right tributary of the Oder River. The river course roughly marked the northern border of the historic region of Lower Silesia with Greater Poland....
i (Buczaczi lähedal) massacre (126 people, including children) - 28 February, Huta Pieniacka massacreHuta Pieniacka massacreThe Huta Pieniacka massacre was a punitive military operation against the inhabitants of the ethnically Polish village Huta Pieniacka, located in western Ukraine, which took place on February 28, 1944. Estimates of the number of victims range from 500 to 1,200.Polish and Ukrainian historians...
- 28 – 29 February, Korosciatyn MassacreKorosciatyn MassacreThe Korosciatyn massacre took place on the night of February 28/29, 1944, during the province-wide wave of massacres of Poles in Volhynia in World War II. Korosciatyn, which now bears the name of Krynica and is located in western Ukraine, was one of the biggest ethnic Polish villages of the...
(ca. 150 people, including children) - Until 19 February, Operation Sumpfhahn (Hłusk, Bobrujsk; 538 people, including children)
- Beginning of March, Berezyna-Bielnicz massacre (686 people, including children)
- 7 – 17 April, Operation Auerhahn (Bobrujsk; ca. 1,000 people, including children)
- 17 April – 12 May, Operation Frühlingsfest (Połock, Uszacz; 7,011 people, including children)
- 25 May – 17 June, Operation Kormoran; Wilejka, Borysów, MinskMinsk- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...
; 7,697 people, including children) - 2 June, Murder of Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam's children (9 children)
- 2 June – 13 June, Operation Pfingsrose (Talka; 499 people, including children)
- 10 June, Distomo massacreDistomo massacreThe Distomo massacre was a Nazi war crime perpetrated by members of the Waffen-SS in the village of Distomo, Greece, during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II.-History:...
(218 people, including children) - 10 June, Oradour-sur-Glane massacre (205 children)
- 29 June, CivitellaCivitella in Val di ChianaCivitella in Val di Chiana , often also Civitella di Val di Chiana, is a comune in the province of Arezzo, south of Arezzo in Tuscany, Italy. It is one of the best-preserved of the network of Lombard fortresses of the 6th and the 7th century in central Italy, strategically placed to control the...
-Cornia-San PancrazioSan PancrazioSan Pancrazio is a basilica church in Rome, founded in the 6th century. It stands in via S. Pancrazio, westward beyond the Porta San Pancrazio that opens in a stretch of the Aurelian Wall on the Janiculum....
massacre (Toscana; 203 people, including children) - June, Operation Pfingstausnlug (Sienno; 653 people, including children)
- June, Operation Windwirbel (Chidra; 560 people, including children)
- 4–August 25, Ochota massacreOchota massacreOchota Massacre - a wave of mass murders, robbery, looting, arson, and rape, which swept across the Warsaw district Ochota during August 4–25, 1944. The gravest crimes were committed in Ochota hospitals, in the Radium Institute, Kolonia Staszica and the concentration camp called "Zieleniak"...
(ca. 10,000 people, including children) - 5 – 8 August, Wola massacreWola massacreThe Wola massacre was the scene of the largest single massacre in the history of Poland. According to different sources, some 40,000 to 100,000 Polish civilians and POWs were killed by the German forces during their suppression of the Warsaw Uprising...
(40,000 up to 100,000 people, including children) - 12 August, Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacreSant'Anna di Stazzema massacreThe Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre was a Nazi German atrocity in the village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, in the course of an operation against the Italian resistance movement in 1944, during the Italian Campaign of World War II.-Facts:...
(560 people, including children) - 29 September – 5 October, Marzabotto massacreMarzabotto massacreThe Marzabotto massacre was a World War II mass murder of at least 770 civilians by Germans, which took place in the territory around the small village of Marzabotto, in the mountainous area south of Bologna...
(250 children) - 5 November, Heusden Town Hall Massacre (134 people, including 74 children)
1940s
- BorówBorówBorów may refer to the following places in Poland:*Borów, Polkowice County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship *Borów, Strzelin County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship...
massacre (103 children) - Krasowo-CzęstkiKrasowo-CzestkiKrasowo-Częstki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowe Piekuty, within Wysokie Mazowieckie County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland....
massacre (83 children) - MichniówMichniówMichniów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Suchedniów, within Skarżysko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland...
massacre (48 children) - Murders of children in the Hadamar ClinicHadamar ClinicThe Hadamar Euthanasia Centre was a psychiatric hospital in the German town of Hadamar, used by the Nazis as the site of their T-4 Euthanasia Programme, which performed mass sterilizations and mass murder of "undesirable" members of Nazi society, specifically those with physical and mental...
(NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar) mostly by Irmgard HuberIrmgard HuberIrmgard Huber was the head nurse of Germany's Hadamar Clinic, a major center of the Action T4 euthanasia program in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of war crimes in 1947.... - SzczecynSzczecynSzczecyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gościeradów, within Kraśnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Kraśnik and south-west of the regional capital Lublin.-References:...
massacre (71 children)
Generally
- Anti-partisan operations in Belarus
- Jäger ReportJäger ReportThe Jäger Report was written on 1 December 1941 by Karl Jäger, commander of Einsatzkommando 3, a killing unit of Einsatzgruppen A which was attached to Army Group North during the Operation Barbarossa...
- Kidnapping of Polish children by Nazi GermanyKidnapping of Polish children by Nazi GermanyKidnapping of Eastern European children by Nazi Germany , part of the Generalplan Ost , involved taking children from Eastern Europe and moving them to Nazi Germany for the purpose of Germanization, or conversion into Germans....
- Murder of children of Jewish Children's Home in OsloJewish Children's Home in OsloThe Jewish Children's Home in Oslo was established in 1939 under the auspices of Nansenhjelpen, a humanitarian organization established by Odd Nansen, the son of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Fridtjof Nansen...
- Murders of children in the Drancy internment campDrancy internment campThe Drancy internment camp of Paris, France, was used to hold Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps. 65,000 Jews were deported from Drancy, of whom 63,000 were murdered including 6,000 children...
- Pacification operations in German-occupied PolandPacification operations in German-occupied PolandThe pacification operations in German-occupied Poland was the use of military force and punitive measures conducted during World War II by Nazi Germany with the goal of suppressing any Polish resistance....
Sources
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Article Children during the Holocaust; and online exhibitions Life in the Shadows; and Give Me Your Children
- Holocaust Memorial Album Honoring more than 1.5 Million Souls Under 12 years of age that never returned ... from Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project: "Forget You Not"
- Children and the Holocaust
- Nazis kidnap Polish children
See also
- Allied war crimes during World War II
- List of war crimes
- Soviet war crimes
- Italian war crimesItalian war crimesItalian war crimes are a well documented but poorly publicized aspect of the history of Italy during the 20th century.-War crimes:During the first half of the 20th century, Italy was involved in several colonial wars, notably against the then only independent African states, Ethiopia , and in World...
- Japanese war crimesJapanese war crimesJapanese war crimes occurred during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Some of the incidents have also been described as an Asian Holocaust and Japanese war atrocities...
- British war crimesBritish war crimesBritish war crimes are crimes committed by the armed forces of the United Kingdom from its formation in 1707 to the present day. In this context, the term "war crime" had a broad definition, including both officially sanctioned acts and the independent actions of individuals during active service,...
- United States war crimes
- Bombing of GuernicaBombing of GuernicaThe bombing of Guernica was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Guernica, Spain, causing widespread destruction and civilian deaths, during the Spanish Civil War...
- The HolocaustThe HolocaustThe Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
- German concentration camps
- Nazi crimes against ethnic PolesNazi crimes against ethnic PolesIn addition to about 2.9 million Polish Jews , about 2.8 million non-Jewish Polish citizens perished during the course of the war...
- List of Axis war criminals
- World War II atrocities in PolandWorld War II atrocities in PolandApproximately six million Polish citizens, divided nearly equally between non-Jewish and Jewish, perished during World War II. Most were civilians killed by the actions of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and their allies. At the Nuremberg Tribunal, three categories were established. These categories...
- Consequences of German NazismConsequences of German NazismNazism and the acts of the Nazi German state profoundly affected many countries, communities and peoples before, during and after World War II. While the attempt of Germany to exterminate several nations viewed as subhuman by Nazi ideology was eventually stopped by the Allies, Nazi aggression...
- Command responsibilityCommand responsibilityCommand responsibility, sometimes referred to as the Yamashita standard or the Medina standard, and also known as superior responsibility, is the doctrine of hierarchical accountability in cases of war crimes....
- Babi YarBabi YarBabi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by the Nazis during their campaign against the Soviet Union. The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place on September 29–30, 1941, wherein 33,771 Jews were killed in a...
- Generalplan OstGeneralplan OstGeneralplan Ost was a secret Nazi German plan for the colonization of Eastern Europe. Implementing it would have necessitated genocide and ethnic cleansing to be undertaken in the Eastern European territories occupied by Germany during World War II...
- EinsatzgruppenEinsatzgruppenEinsatzgruppen were SS paramilitary death squads that were responsible for mass killings, typically by shooting, of Jews in particular, but also significant numbers of other population groups and political categories...
- Nazi GermanyNazi GermanyNazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
- Pacification operations in German-occupied PolandPacification operations in German-occupied PolandThe pacification operations in German-occupied Poland was the use of military force and punitive measures conducted during World War II by Nazi Germany with the goal of suppressing any Polish resistance....
- War of Extermination: Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941-1944
Further reading
External links
- Movie (on-line)
- Poland under German occupation 1939-1945