- Summary
- Raphaël Lemkin (1900-1959) coined the word "genocide" in the winter of 1942 and led a movement in the United Nations to outlaw the crime, setting his sights on reimagining human rights institutions and humanitarian law after World War II. After the UN adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948, Lemkin slipped into obscurity, and within a few short years many of the same governments that had agreed to outlaw genocide and draft a Universal Declaration of Human Rights tried to undermine these principles.
- Series
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
- Format
- Online resource
- Author/Creator
- Irvin-Erickson, Douglas, 1982- author.
- Published
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
- Contents
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Youth, 1900-1932
The League of Nations years, 1933-1939
Writing Axis rule in occupied Europe, 1939-1944
Axis rule in Holocaust and genocide studies
The Nuremberg years, 1944-1946
The United Nations years, 1946-1948
The final years, 1948-1959.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Youth, 1900-1932 -- The League of Nations years, 1933-1939 -- Writing Axis rule in occupied Europe, 1939-1944 -- Axis rule in Holocaust and genocide studies -- The Nuremberg years, 1944-1946 -- The United Nations years, 1946-1948 -- The final years, 1948-1959.
