* 1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40, 000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.

In this context, black revolts in Cuba increased, and were put down with mass executions.

At the direction of Lenin, the Cheka performed mass arrests, imprisonments, and executions of " enemies of the people ".

The population was further altered by Joseph Stalin's mass deportations and executions while many people simply left as a result of World War II.

Despite fear of the Gestapo after the mass arrests and executions of the spring, the opposition still plotted and planned.

" The Junta relied on mass illegal arrests, torture, and executions without trial to stifle any political opposition.

The Reign of Terror ( 5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794: the latter is date 10 Thermidor, year II of the French Revolutionary Calendar ), also known simply as The Terror (), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of " enemies of the revolution.

Through the Revolutionary Tribunal, the Terror's leaders exercised broad dictatorial powers and used them to instigate mass executions and political purges.

The Report about Case Srebrenica by Darko Trifunovic, commissioned by the government of the Republika Srpska, was described by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as " one of the worst examples of revisionism in relation to the mass executions of Bosnian Muslims committed in Srebrenica in July 1995 ".

When Shaka's mother Nandi died for example, the monarch ordered a massive outpouring of grief including mass executions, forbidding the planting of crops or the use of milk, and the killing of all pregnant women and their husbands.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ( IACHR ) in a 1981 report found evidence for mass executions in the period following the revolution.

The 1992 annual report by the same organization contains details of mass graves and investigations which suggest that mass executions had been carried out.

Belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires.

Unlike in the West, the Nazi racial policy encouraged excessive brutality against what it considered to be the " inferior people " of Slavic descent ; most German advances were thus followed by mass executions.

* The beginning of the Würzburg witch trial, which led to the mass executions of hundreds of people until 1631.

Cheka became notorious for torture and mass summary executions, performed especially during the Red Terror and the Russian Civil War.

Markers were put in place for the 60th anniversary of the mass executions that were carried out at the Lagedi, Vaivara and Klooga ( Kalevi-Liiva ) camps in September 1944.

The execution of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their associates was a sensational news event in the USSR and around the world, paving the way for the mass arrests and executions of the terror of 1937-1938.

It conducted mass extrajudicial executions, ran the Gulag system of forced labor camps, suppressed underground resistance, conducted mass deportations of entire nationalities and Kulaks to unpopulated regions of the country, guarded state borders, conducted espionage and political assassinations abroad, was responsible for influencing foreign governments, and enforced Stalinist policy within communist movements in other countries.

Documented evidence exists that the NKVD committed mass extrajudicial executions, guided by secret " plans ".

In liberated territory the NKVD and ( later ) NKGB carried out mass arrests, deportations, and executions.

During the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, all parties in power attempted to wipe out the former rulers by murder, mass executions or battles.

After hearing reports of and witnessing massacres in Poland, Canaris on 12 September 1939 travelled to Hitler's headquarters train, at the time in Upper Silesia, to register his objection to the atrocities ; prior to reaching Hitler he encountered General Wilhelm Keitel whom he informed: " I have information that mass executions are being planned in Poland, and that members of the Polish nobility and the Roman Catholic bishops and priests have been singled out for extermination.

The Russians identified Anastasia by using a computer program to compare photos of the youngest grand duchess with the skulls of the victims from the mass grave.

Thousands of combatants on both sides died in the fighting, alongside civilians, many of which were reportedly ethnic Russians ; unclaimed bodies were later collected and buried in mass graves on the city outskirts.

The battle showed the British that even the strongest trench defences could be overcome by a surprise artillery-infantry attack using the newly available methods and equipment, with a mass tank attack as a bonus ; it also showed the Germans the effectiveness of their similar new Stormtrooper tactics so recently adapted by General Hutier against the Russians.

He urged fellow Catholics in the Bureau to attend mass more often, and denounced the Russians as " godless ", even though he was spying for them.

Significant enclaves of Karelians exist in the Tver oblast of Russia, resettled after Russia's defeat in 1617 against Sweden — in order to escape the peril of forced conversion to Lutheranism in Swedish Karelia and because the Russians promised tax deductions the Orthodox Karelians mass migrated there.

The Russians seized the moment, launching a mass bayonet charge resulting in heavy hand-to-hand fighting.

Many Russians held him responsible for the economic hardships that plagued the country in the 1990s that resulted in mass poverty and hyperinflation among other things, although liberals praised him as a man who did what had to be done to save the country from complete collapse.

Moreover, Tatar Council organized a mass slaughter of Russian in Crimea, killing between 70, 000 and 120, 000 Russians.

One brave group of Royal Welch Fusiliers had held their ground and were firing into the Russians until confronted by a mass of Russian soldiers, forcing them to retreat rapidly, and in the process, smashed straight into the formation of the advancing Scots Fusiliers Guards, causing immense chaos.

The Washington Times also reported that defense officials believed the Russians could also explain what happened to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.

Eventually, the German Nazi extermination camp of Belzec consisted of two subcamps: Camp I, which included the barracks of the Ukrainians, the workshops and barracks of the Jews, the reception area with two undressing barracks, and Camp II, which contained the gas chambers and the mass graves.

Non-Russians ( excluding Ukrainians and Armenians ) worked in agriculture, construction, a long host of undesirable jobs, as well as the so-called " informal sector " ( i. e., illegal, due to the mass discrimination in the legal sector ).

Poles, Ukrainians, Jews, and Germans all participated in this mass movement of countryfolk and villagers.

In 1936 and 1937, the Poles used claims of OUN involvement to justify mass arrests of Ukrainians, particularly youths.

Although Oleskiw promoted emigrants based on their assimilationist tendencies, the mass of Ukrainians that followed them tended to retain their cultural heritage.

Babi Yar was a site of additional mass murders of captured Soviet citizens over the following years, including Ukrainians, Roma, POWs and anyone suspected in aiding the resistance movement, perhaps as many as 60, 000 additional people.

Although killing oneself is forbidden under normal Jewish law as being a denial of God's goodness in the world, under extreme circumstances when there has seemed no choice but to either be killed or forced to betray their religion, Jews have committed suicide or mass suicide ( see Masada, First French persecution of the Jews, and York Castle for examples ).

The " interventions " advocated and practiced by eugenicists involved prominently the identification and classification of individuals and their families, including the poor, mentally ill, blind, deaf, developmentally disabled, promiscuous women, homosexuals and entire racial groups — such as the Roma and Jews — as " degenerate " or " unfit "; the segregation or institutionalisation of such individuals and groups, their sterilization, euthanasia, and in the extreme case of Nazi Germany, their mass extermination.

The many prominent Jews in the arts and the mass media emigrated in large numbers rather than risk the fists of the SA and the gates of the concentration camp, as did many socialists and liberals.

* 1942 – Holocaust: Vel'd ' Hiv Roundup ( Rafle du Vel'd ' Hiv ): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13, 152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.

Hate crimes and discrimination against Jews were very relevant at the time of mass exodus of urban Jewish population into suburbs ; those Jews unable or unwilling to move often became victims of violent crimes in the racially and ethnically changing neighborhoods.

* 1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg ( Lviv ), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6, 000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.

* Massive immigration wave of Jews from the Commonwealth of Independent States to Israel – With the end of the Soviet Union, Israel faced a mass influx of Russian Jews, many of whom had high expectations the country was unable to meet.

* January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament, to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck.

The governor of Syria, Publius Petronius, who is responsible for erecting the statue, faces mass demonstrations by Jews of the region and manages to delay construction of the statue until the death of Caligula in 41.

* 1283 – King Philip III of France causes a mass migration of Jews when he outlaws their residence in the small villages and rural localities of France.

* King Philip III of France causes a mass migration of Jews when he outlaws their residence in the small villages and rural localities of France.

The repeated waves of pogroms that swept Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th century prompted mass Jewish emigration ( more than 2 million Russian Jews emigrated in the period 1881 – 1920 ).

In 1096, on the way to the First Crusade, Peter the Hermit led a mob of Crusaders that attempted to force the mass conversion of the Jews of Regensburg and killed all those who resisted.

The book is a graphically violent depiction of a future race war in the United States, which includes a detailed description of the mass hangings-" the Day of the Rope "- of many " race traitors " ( especially Jews, gay people, and those in inter-racial marriages or relationships ) in the public streets of Los Angeles, followed by the systematic ethnic cleansing of the entire city.

The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas chambers to mass murder Jews, and the actual number of Jews killed was significantly ( typically an order of magnitude ) lower than the historically accepted figure of 5 to 6 million.

A few days after the war was over 200, 000 Jews flocked to the Western Wall in the first mass Jewish pilgrimage near the mount since the destruction of Temple in 69 CE.

In a speech given in Hamburg in 1991, Irving stated that in two years time "... this myth of mass murders of Jews in the death factories of Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka ... which in fact never took place " will be disproved ( Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Treblinka were all well known Vernichtungslager ).

In a 1991 speech, Irving claimed that in two years time, "... this myth of mass murders of Jews in the death factories of Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka ... which in fact never took place " will be disproven.

During the second investigation, Count van der Groeben testified that it was indeed Schaper who conducted mass executions of Jews in his district.