Editing Non-combatant (section)

=== World War II ===
In [[World War II]], non-combatants were more affected than they were in previous wars.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aoXmBDNXhP4C&q=civilian+thomas+de+quincey&pg=PA459|title=From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity|last=Braudy|first=Leo|date=2010-12-08|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=9780307773418|language=en}}</ref> Sources claim that over forty-five million civilians and non-combatants lost their lives throughout the war.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war|title=Research Starters: Worldwide Deaths in World War II|work=The National WWII Museum {{!}} New Orleans|language=en|access-date=2019-05-03}}</ref> This number, however, is largely debated. Despite the understanding that over 18 million were killed in the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] and as a result of other Nazi persecution, the exact number will likely never be determined.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/documenting-numbers-of-victims-of-the-holocaust-and-nazi-persecution|title=Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution|encyclopedia=encyclopedia.ushmm.org|language=en|access-date=2019-05-03}}</ref> There is also difficulty of estimating the numbers for events such as the [[Nanjing Massacre|Nanjing massacre]], though it is estimated that between 200,000 and 300,000 civilians and prisoners of war were slaughtered.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.com/topics/japan/nanjing-massacre|title=Nanking Massacre|work=HISTORY|language=en|access-date=2019-05-03}}</ref> This does not necessarily include military, non-combatant or civilian people killed by radiation, disease, or other means as a result of war.<ref name=":4" /> After World War II ended, countries got together with the aim to give rights to non-combatants and created the 1949 Geneva Conventions, built off the 1907 Hague Convention.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Treaty.xsp?documentId=AE2D398352C5B028C12563CD002D6B5C&action=openDocument|title=Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries - Geneva Convention (IV) on Civilians, 1949|work=ihl-databases.icrc.org|access-date=2019-05-03}}</ref>