ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Extermination Camp, Lebensraum, Isabel V. Hull
Document Summary
Genocide (raphael lemkin) succeeded in coining the term genocide, as churchill had so famously declared it a crime without a name until ww2: used in the nuremberg indictments of nazi war criminals. Not just about destroying culture, language or communal practises. Not just a calamity as a result of unintended circumstances like failed policy: unrestricted. Many identities be it social, ethnic, political etc. They decide the victim unlike un gc which restricts victim groups to national, ethnic, racial, religious groups. Secularisation in the modern world meant cleansing later manifested itself in political ideology, namely as part of communism and fascism: nationalism too, as a kind of modern religion, which contains aspects that lend to the most extreme manifestation. A desire to purify the nation of alien groups. Un convention on the prevention and punishment of genocide. No. 1 if genocide, it"s a crime and countries have to prevent and punish.
