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Tag : Attrocity

1941-12-12Hitler condemns Jews

A meeting between Adolf Hitler and the highest ranking officials of the Nazi party, where he declares the imminent destruction of the Jewish race.

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1941-12-08Chelmno Gas Vans

Gas vans are first used as a means of execution, at the Chelmno extermination camp near Lodz in Poland.

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1941-11-07Armenia Sunk

Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimeas hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.

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1941-10-30Belzec

1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.

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1941-10-29Kaunas Ghetto Massacre

In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".

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1941-10-201941-10-21Kragujevac Massacre

German troops massacred between 2,300 to 5,000 civilians, mostly Serbs and Roma, women and schoolchildren, in Kragujevac, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). It was one of the worst massacres during the German military occupation of Serbia.

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1941-06-30Fall of Lviv

In advance of German troops, NKVD and NKGB troops retreating from the city of Lviv murder the occupants of the Lviv's prisons. German troops capture the city.

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1941-06-27Lasi Pogrom

Romanian government forces perpetrate one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history. At least 13,266 Jewish residents were murdered during the violence.

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1941-06-03Kandanos Razed

German paratroopers raze the village of Kandanos to the ground. All 180 of its inhabitants are murdered.

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1941-06-02Kondomari Massacre

Greek civilians are murdered by an ad-hoc firing squad consisting of German Paratroopers. The killings were part of a series of mass reprisals in Crete for civilian involvement in the defense of the island.

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