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War crimes in World War II
World War II saw the largest scale of war crimes and crimes against humanity ever committed in an armed conflict, mostly against civilians and specific groups (such as Jews; Poles and other Slavs; homosexuals; and people who were mentally ill or disabled) and prisoners of war (POWs). The war also saw the indiscriminate mass rape of captured women, carpet bombing of civilian targets and the use of starvation as a weapon of war. Most of these crimes were carried out by the Axis powers who constantly violated the rules of war and the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, mostly by Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. Belgian historian Pieter Lagrou observed that "forced labor carried out in murderous circumstances by Allied soldiers [POWs] and civilians in Japanese hands and the death by execution and starvation of over 3 million Soviet POWs in German hands are among the most infamous crimes of the Second World War". However the decision by the United States to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima...
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