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How were civilians treated during world war 2 short as possible please and thank you

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Civilians suffered enormously and were often primary targets. Briefly:

- Occupied Europe & USSR: repression, mass shootings, reprisals, forced labor, deportations, ghettos.
- Holocaust: systematic genocide of six million Jews plus Roma, disabled people, political prisoners, and others.
- Asia–Pacific: massacres (e.g., Nanking), Bataan Death March, forced labor, sexual slavery (“comfort women”).
- Strategic bombing and nuclear attacks: massive civilian deaths and destruction in London, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.
- Internment and persecution: e.g., Japanese‑American internment, political imprisonment across occupied zones.
- Rationing, evacuations, refugee flows: widespread shortages, displaced populations, and long-term trauma.

In short: civilians faced killing, forced labor, deportation, starvation, and immense displacement.