1. Analysis: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
- Author
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Dendy, Christina
- Subjects
Holocaust, 1939-1945 ,Convention on the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) ,Genocide laws - Abstract
During World War II, the Nazi regime of Germany systematically killed a total of some fifteen to twenty million European Jews, Romani, and other ethnic and social minorities. The killing began before the official outbreak of war in 1939, as the Nazis prosecuted a relentless campaign against Jewish and other populations deemed undesirable. In the ensuing years, these peoples died from forced marches and forced labor, mass shootings, euthanasia, abortion, starvation, and disease in ghettos and concentration camps, as well as extermination plans carried out in six death camps. On December 9, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 260 (III), the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to prevent such crimes from ever happening again and to ensure punishment of those who violated its provisions.
- Published
- 2021