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"atrocities experienced by the Germans as the Soviet military rolled in from the east" - don't invade places then. 'Atrocity' is when someone exterminates peopl
by CmonDev 12y ago
"atrocities experienced by the Germans as the Soviet military rolled in from the east" - don't invade places then. 'Atrocity' is when someone exterminates people just to clear the land. The word you were looking for is 'retribution'.
- mcv 12y agoExterminating people to clear the land is called "genocide" (and it's one of the most severe forms of genocide), which is only one of many different kinds of atrocities. Atrocities can and often do occur in regular warfare, and they definitely happened on both sides on the eastern front in WW2.