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Gardelegen (war crime) the German SS forced 1,016 slave laborers who were<br />

part <strong>of</strong> a transport evacuated from the Dora labor subcamp into a large barn<br />

which was then lit on fire. Most <strong>of</strong> the prisoners were burned alive; some were<br />

shot trying to escape.<br />

Marzabotto massacre, the German SS killing <strong>of</strong> at least 770 civilians <strong>of</strong><br />

Marzabotto as a collective punishment for their support <strong>of</strong> Italian partisans and<br />

the Italian resistance movement<br />

Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre committed in the hill village <strong>of</strong> Sant'Anna di<br />

Stazzema in Tuscany, Italy, in the course <strong>of</strong> an operation against the Italian<br />

resistance movement during the Italian Campaign <strong>of</strong> World <strong>War</strong> II. 560 local<br />

villagers and refugees were murdered and their bodies burnt in a scorched earth<br />

policy action by the Nazis.<br />

Cefalonia Massacre mass execution <strong>of</strong> the men <strong>of</strong> the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry<br />

Division by the Germans on the island <strong>of</strong> Cephalonia, Greece, after the Italian<br />

armistice<br />

Oradour-sur-Glane massacre On 10 June 1944, the village <strong>of</strong> Oradour-sur-Glane<br />

in Haute-Vienne in then Nazi occupied France was destroyed, when 642 <strong>of</strong> its<br />

inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a Waffen-SS<br />

company.<br />

<strong>The</strong> annihilation <strong>of</strong> the Czech city <strong>of</strong> Lidice, as an act <strong>of</strong> vengeance for the<br />

assassination <strong>of</strong> Reinhard Heydrich.<br />

Massacre <strong>of</strong> Kalavryta refers to the extermination <strong>of</strong> the male population and the<br />

total destruction <strong>of</strong> the town <strong>of</strong> Kalavryta, in Greece, by German occupying forces<br />

during World <strong>War</strong> II, on 13 December 1943.<br />

Distomo massacre perpetrated by members <strong>of</strong> the Waffen-SS in the village <strong>of</strong><br />

Distomo, Greece, during the Axis occupation <strong>of</strong> Greece during World <strong>War</strong> II.<br />

Kragujevac massacre was a Nazi war crime in<br />

which Serbs, Jews and Roma men and boys in Kragujevac, Serbia, were<br />

murdered by German Wehrmacht soldiers on 20 and 21 October 1941.<br />

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<strong>The</strong> suppression <strong>of</strong> the 1944 <strong>War</strong>saw Uprising and subsequent leveling <strong>of</strong> the<br />

whole city<br />

<strong>The</strong> treatment <strong>of</strong> Soviet POWs throughout the war, who were not given the<br />

protections and guarantees <strong>of</strong> the Geneva Convention unlike other Allied<br />

prisoners. Nazi crimes against Soviet POWs, resulted in some 3.3 million to 3.5<br />

million deaths, about 60% <strong>of</strong> all Soviet POWs.<br />

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