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Top 20 Worst Massacres of the 20th Century 22 items ranked

The most horrible mass murders of the last century

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Bengal Famine of 1943 Report Abuse
3 million people died from starvation and malnutrition due to man made famine. British army stored all grains in anticipation of Japanese invasion and exported food to allied forces in Middle east and Europe while local population starved. Amartya Sen (a Bengali) won Noble price in economics for welfare economics based on researching this famine, argues that there are no famines in democracy. He also pointed out that rice production in Bengal was higher in 1942 and 1943 vs. 1941 when there was no famine. Since Indian independance while India remains a poor country with wide-spread malnutrition there have been no famines vs. 25 major famines under British rule in India in which approx. 30-40 million Indians died
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Auschwitz, Poland (German death camp: Jan. 1942-Jan. 1945) Report Abuse
Over 1.2 million human beings were executed, worked to death or otherwise killed at this Nazi concentration camp. Victims were mostly Jews, but did include gypsies, Poles and POWs.
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Treblinka, Poland (German death camp: July 1942-Fall 1943) Report Abuse
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum estimated casualties at this death camp to be between 700,000-850,000.
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Leningrad, USSR (urban siege: 8 Sept. 1941-27 Jan. 1944) Report Abuse
Around 641,000 Soviet civilians died in the siege; one million died in the siege and subsequent evacuation combined.
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Nanjing, China (massacre of civilians and POWs by Japanese: 13 Dec. 1937-Feb. 38) Report Abuse
260,000 dead
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Kolyma, USSR (Soviet GULAG: 1930-mid 1950s) Report Abuse
While the official death toll for this Soviet prison hovers around 500,000, some historians number the causalities as high as 1 million.
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Belzec, Poland (German death camp: March 1942-July 1943) Report Abuse
600,000 were executed at this Nazi concentration camp.
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Manila, Philippines (massacre of civilians by Japanese: Nov. 1944-Feb. 1945) Report Abuse
100,000 dead
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Majdanek, Poland (German death camp: Oct. 1942-Nov. 1943) Report Abuse
360,000 dead
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Chelmno, Poland (German death camp: 8 Dec. 1941-April 1943) Report Abuse
320,000 dead
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Changchun, China (urban siege: May-Sept. 1948) Report Abuse
330,000 dead
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Sobibor, Poland (German death camp: 1 March 1942-Oct. 1943) Report Abuse
250,000 dead
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Hiroshima, Japan (nuclear strike by US: 6 Aug. 1945) Report Abuse
92,000 dead
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Warsaw, Poland (urban uprising: 1 Aug.-2 Oct. 1944) Report Abuse
200,000 dead
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Bykivnia, near Kiev, USSR (Stalinist burial site, 1930s) Report Abuse
200,000 dead
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Jasenovac, Yugoslavia (Croatian concentration camp: 1941-1945) Report Abuse
78,000 dead
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Stalingrad, USSR (urban battle: Sept. 1942-31 Jan. 1943) Report Abuse
140,000 dead civilians
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Kuropaty, near Minsk, USSR (Stalinist massacre site: 1938-39) Report Abuse
150,000 dead
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Vorkuta, USSR (Soviet GULAG: 1932-62) Report Abuse
100,000 dead
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Berlin, Germany (urban battle: 16 April-7 May 1945) Report Abuse
100,000 dead
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Tokyo, Japan (air raid by US: 9 March 1945) Report Abuse
84,000 dead
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aushwitz Report Abuse
more deaths than number 1
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