1940 ⟶ Katyn Massacre: Soviet NKVD Executes Polish Officers
22,000 Polish officers, policemen, and others are massacred ...
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🔪 Katyn Massacre: Soviet NKVD Executes Polish Officers
22,000 Polish officers, policemen, and others are massacred by the Soviet NKVD in the Katyn massacre.⟶
massacrewar crimesSoviet UnionPolandNKVDexecutionatrocitypolitical repressionEastern Front
🔥 Odessa Massacre Begins
Odessa massacre begins and continues for two days. 25,000 to 34,000 Jews are led in a long procession and are shot and killed in an antitank ditch, or burnt alive after being crowded into four buildings.⟶
HolocaustMassacreEastern FrontRomaniaJewish PersecutionWar CrimesGenocideSoviet Union
💀 First Reports of Katyn Massacre Emerge
The first reports of the Katyn massacre in Poland seep to the West; reports say that more than 22,000 prisoners of war were killed by the NKVD, who eventually blame the massacre on the Germans.⟶
Katyn MassacrePolandSoviet UnionGermanyWar CrimesPropagandaMass MurderWWIIEastern Europe
🔪 Changjiao Massacre: Japanese Kill Civilians
The Japanese begin a three-day massacre of civilians; about 30,000 Chinese are killed in the Changjiao massacre.⟶
atrocitymassacrecivilian deathswar crimesChinaJapanese occupationEastern Front
💀 Wola Massacre in Warsaw
Wola massacre: 40-50 thousand civilians murdered by German and collaborating Russian forces in the Wola district of Warsaw.⟶
WarsawPolandMassacreCivilian CasualtiesGermanyWWIIWar CrimesEastern FrontBrutalityWola District
🔪 Baligród Massacre: Polish Civilians Killed
Ukrainian insurgents kill 42 Polish civilians in the Baligród massacre.⟶
massacrePolandUkraineethnic violencecivilian casualtiesEastern Frontinsurgentsatrocitieswar crimesconflict