The UN genocide convention

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Topic: International Organisations grade: 8.0 Maastricht University language: English abstract: The hybrid term genocide was modeled by Raphael Lemkin and used for the first time in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation - Analysis of Government - Proposals for Redress (1944) and sought to describe the cruelties and mass murdering committed by the Nazis in the Second World War. Lemkin a Polish lawyer who himself was persecuted by the Nazi system thereby created a new term and a new conception for [...] the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group (Lemkin 1944 p. 79). A term that henceforward was used in order to depict the crime of crimes (Schabas 2008a p. 4) crimes that could not have been named before.