Table of Data Points
1945-08-15 | Surrender Broadcast | After several more days of behind-the-scenes negotiations and a failed coup d'Etat, Emperor Hirohito gave a recorded radio address to the nation. Some Japanese soldiers, devastated by the surrender, committed suicide. Many allied POWs were executed. | Read about 'Surrender Broadcast' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Surrender Broadcast' | ||
1945-07-07 | Kalagong massacre | 600 villages are murdered by troops from 3rd Battalion, 215th Regiment and the OC Moulmein Kempeitai of the Imperial Japanese Army. | Read about 'Kalagong massacre' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Kalagong massacre' | ||
1945-01-01 | Chenogne Massacre | Several dozen German prisoners of war were killed by American forces near the village of Chenogne in retaliation for the Malmedy massacre. | Read about 'Chenogne Massacre' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Chenogne Massacre' | ||
1944-08-12 | Sant'Anna di Stazzema | SS troops commanded Anton Galler, surrounded and entered Sant'Anna, rounded up approximately 560 men, women and children, murdered them and burnt their bodies. | Read about 'Sant'Anna di Stazzema' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Sant'Anna di Stazzema' | ||
1944-06-07 | Abbey Ardennes Massacre | 18 captured Canadian soldiers of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders and the 27th Canadian Armoured Regiment were taken to Ardennes abbey and killed by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division. | Read about 'Abbey Ardennes Massacre' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Abbey Ardennes Massacre' | ||
1944-03-24 | The Great Escape | 76 prisoners of Stalag Luft III escape. 73 are subsequently recaptured and 50 are murdered by the Gestapo on Hitler's orders. | Read about 'The Great Escape' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'The Great Escape' | ||
1944-03-24 | Ardeatine massacre | 335 civilians are led to a system of caves a rural suburb of Rome and murdered by SS troops. The massacre was in reprisal for a partisan attack on the previous day. | Read about 'Ardeatine massacre' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Ardeatine massacre' | ||
1944-01-29 | Koniuchy massacre | Soviet partisan units attacked the village of Koniuchy. Men, women and children were massacred indiscriminately. According to the findings of the Institute of National Remembrance at least 38 people were killed and about a dozen injured | Read about 'Koniuchy massacre' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Koniuchy massacre' | ||
1943-06-12 | Berezhany Ghetto | At dawn 1,180 Jews are led to the city's Jewish cemetery in Okopysko and shot. A single survivor, Menachem Katz, escaped and described the massacre. | Read about 'Berezhany Ghetto' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Berezhany Ghetto' | ||
1943-04-07 | Terebovl Massacre | The 1100 Jewish residents of Terebovl, Ukraine are forced to undress to their underwear, marched to the nearby village of Plebanivka and shot. | Read about 'Terebovl Massacre' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Terebovl Massacre' |
[First Page] [Prev] Showing page 1 of 2 pages [Next] [Last Page]