HIS338H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Raphael Lemkin, Genocide Convention, Slavs
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His338 midterm study guide: short answer questions: you will be asked 10 questions. Answers: raphael lemkin (june 24, 1900 august 28, 1959) was a lawyer of polonized-jewish descent who is best known for coining the word genocide and initiating the genocide. Lemkin coined the word genocide in 1943 or 1944 from the rooted words genos (greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (latin for killing): greek for wholly burnt, a burnt offering . The holocaust is also referred to as shoah, 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: luther denounced the jewish people and urged for their harsh persecution and destruction. In a paragraph from his on the jews and their lies he deplores.
