Holocaust

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

lawyer

Polish

prosecutor

peace researcher

cause of death

natural causes

innovator in the field of

International Criminal Law

is one episode among others in the long history of the cultural extermination of human groups... it to be singled out for its intensity and extent rather than its logic.

Raphael Lemkin, by contrast, was a jurist trained in the law of nations, and for him the rise of European anti-Semitism and the eventual destruction of European Jewry did not need to be explained in terms of the fate of the Jews alone. He considered genocidal anti-Semitism to be one episode among others in the long history of the cultural extermination of human groups... the Holocaust was to be singled out for its intensity and extent rather than its logic.

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Raphael Lemkin