Incitement to genocide is a crime under international law which prohibits inciting the commission of genocide. An extreme form of hate speech, incitement to genocide is an inchoate offense and is theo
Audience members performing Nazi salutes during Adolf Hitler's speech of 30 January 1939, in which he threatened "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!"
Jews killed during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, described in the Stroop Report as "bandits destroyed in battle"
Streicher at the 1938 Nuremberg rally before the destruction of Hans-Sachs-Platz synagogue
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
Incitement to genocide
…Incitement to genocide is a crime under international law which prohibits inciting (encouraging) the commission of genocide. An extreme form of hate speech, incitement to genocide is an inchoate offense and is theoretically subject to prosecution even if genocide does not…
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