Atrocity: Acting with great criminality and cruelty; an extremely cruel act or horrid act of injustice that typically involves physical violence or injury.
Example 1: One example of atrocity is the Jewish Holocaust perpetrated by Hitler’s Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, which is arguably one of the most well-known atrocities or war crimes in history. The genocide of Jews includes two thirds of all Jews living in Europe and took place in Germany and German-occupied territories. This genocide was “a horrid act of injustice” because it included gas chambers as a means of mass “extermination” overall deadly extermination camps with forced servitude and starvation, and inhumane medical experiments that were