Excerpt from "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress"
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Date
1944
Description
In this excerpt from "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress," Raphael Lemkin coins the term genocide. Lemkin was a Polish-Jewish lawyer who was fascinated by historic atrocities, especially the Armenian Genocide, and narowly escaped his own capture during the Nazi invasion of Poland. After this he dedicated his life to preventing future atrocities, working with the American legal team for the Nuremberg Trials and helping to establish the Genocide Convention.
Type
Written Document
Region
United States
Era
The Great Depression and WW II
Topic
Genocide, Global History and Geography, Jewish History, World War II
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Page 79 of "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress" by Raphael Lemkin. Published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Accessed at Hathi Trust: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005077436&seq=123
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