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16 - Genocide

from Part III - Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

By
Mark Levene
Edited by
J. R. McNeill  and
Kenneth Pomeranz
J. R. McNeill
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Kenneth Pomeranz
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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Summary

The one thing one can say with certainty about the term genocide is that it has come into ubiquitous and general usage in a matter of decades. Genocide becomes simply a short-hand for proclaiming a horror at some profanation or abuse of the things. One would want to note that something of Lemkin's original formulation carried through into the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide as adopted by the United Nations in 1948. The destruction of close to six million European Jews, or something in the region of 72 per cent in the countries under Nazi hegemony, is remarkable for more than just the numbers involved. An argument for the singularity of the 'Holocaust', however, would have to be weighed against evidence of synchronous or near-synchronous mass killings by several states either also against Jews, or against other ethnic groups.

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The Cambridge World History , pp. 420 - 441
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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  • Edited by J. R. McNeill, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago
  • Book: The Cambridge World History
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  • Book: The Cambridge World History
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139196079.017
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