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SYMHC Classics: Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Lemkin's Genecide

In 19 forty four, raphael limkin published the 712 page book, acis rule in occupied europe. This book documented conditions in europe and finally named the crime that roosevelt had referenced in that 19 forty one address. We read from earlier limpkin wrotet, by genaside, we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. Jeneside was included in the indictments at nuremberg, but to lemkin's disappointment, not in the final judgment. By this point, lemkin had started working as an adviser to us. Supreme court justice robert jackson. After world war too.

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