HIS338H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Raphael Lemkin, Orthodox Judaism, German-Occupied Europe
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Plain indifference: greek for wholly burnt, a burnt offering , shoah, holocaust, churbn, shoah meant destruction during the time of the middle ages and was used in the 1940s. The term was made popular by claude lanzemann in the 1980s who is the director of a. The french speak about destruction in yiddish, the term is churbn referring to the destruction of the first and second temple: orthodox jews use a different term. The systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million jews by the nazi regime and its collaborators: persecuted groups included also: roma (gypsies), the disabled, some of the slavic peoples, communists, socialists, jehovah"s witnesses, and homosexuals. Lithuania in 1941 did a lot of killing: what is genocide, raphael lemkin"s definition of genocide was coined in 1944, used to describe nazi policies, raphael lemkin, axis rule in occupied europe: laws of occupation, analysis of.