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Raphaël Lemkin’s Derivation of Genocide from His Analysis of Nazi-Occupied Europe
The breadth and complexity of Lemkin’s definition of “genocide” results from several influences during the time he developed the concept. One of them is a belief that Nazi Germany was engineering a demographic revolution that would leave Germany ...
Raffael Scheck
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The Mass Murder of the European Jews and the Concept of ‘Genocide’ in the Nuremberg Trials: Reassessing Raphaël Lemkin’s Impact [PDF]
Nuremberg’s prosecutors prominently used Lemkin’s genocide concept. They also dealt in detail with the mass murder of Europe’s Jews. However, for them ‘genocide’ and the Holocaust were not congruent.
Alexa Stiller
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Nazi Recycling and the Remnants of Genocide [PDF]
Ook tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog vormde de verwerking van afval voor het lokale en het nationale nazibestuur een uitdaging. Het regime leek zich meer te bekommeren om de vodden die de gevangenen aan hun lijf droegen dan om het welzijn van de gevangenen zélf, merkt professor Anne Berg (universiteit van Pennsylvania) in haar bijdrage op.
Berg, Anne
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I am discovering that to teach about the history of Nazism, the Holocaust, and genocide is to enter into a profoundly spiritual experience. By this I mean that in engaging with these subjects, students of history must come to terms with some of the most ...
Raymond C. Sun
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By focusing on journalism – a profession that the National Socialist regime viewed as critical to the maintenance of the Nazi state -- this article examines representations of the violence that accompanied the German conquest of East Europe and the ...
Deborah Barton, Fabien Théofilakis
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Documents from Stasys Žakevičius (Žymantas) archive
In 2009, the Museum of Genocide Victims of the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania received documents from the archive of Stasys Žakevičius (who was called Žymantas since 1945), a social activist, lawyer, and participant of the anti ...
Darius Juodis
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Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation [PDF]
This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic countries under German occupation, and provides the details for answering questions like: how can law serve as an instrument of ...
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In 1961, the Eichmann trial opened in Jerusalem, and its worldwide resonance through media coverage questioned the collective conscience about responsibility for Nazi crimes.
Veronica De Pieri
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Funny as hell: The functions of humour during and after genocide
The history of genocide is replete with various humorous treatments by different actors with distinctive objectives. This type of dark humour treats the topic, which is usually enveloped with solemnity, in a satirical manner. This essay aims to study the
Uğur Ümit Üngör +1 more
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Psychiatric Genocide: Nazi Attempts to Eradicate Schizophrenia [PDF]
Although the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War II is well known, the concurrent Nazi genocide of psychiatric patients is much less widely known. An attempt was made to estimate the number of individuals with schizophrenia who were sterilized and murdered by the Nazis and to assess the effect on the subsequent prevalence and incidence of this ...
E Fuller, Torrey, Robert H, Yolken
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