Genocide is the partial or total destruction of a human group, committed intentionally. The popular view conceives of genocide as the large-scale killing of individuals, but in scholarly and legal fie
The Holocaust heavily influences the popular understanding of genocide, as mass killing of innocent people based on their ethnic identity.
The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia was described as such in 1945 by Raphael Lemkin and at the Nuremberg trials, and largely matches the definition of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The expulsion of Germans was one of the instances of state violence that was deliberately written out of the legal definition of genocide.
Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jew
Genocide
…century. Despite efforts to end genocide, effective interventions have not occurred. The colloquial understanding of genocide is heavily influenced by the Holocaust as its archetype and is conceived as innocent victims being targeted for their ethnic identity alone rather than for any political reason. Genocide is…
Jews arriving at Auschwitz II in German-occupied Poland, May 1944. Most were selected for execution in gas chambers.
View of the Pegnitz River (c. 1900) with the Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg, destroyed in 1938 during the November pogroms
1919 Austrian postcard showing a Jew stabbing a German Army soldier in the back
Territorial expansion of Germany from 1933 to 1941