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Deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group defined by the exterminators as undesirable. The term is commonly applied to the policies of the Nazis during World War II (what they called the ‘final solution’ – the extermination of all ‘undesirables’ in occupied Europe, particularly the Jews, in the Holocaust).

Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-born lawyer, coined the term in 1943, combining the Greek word ‘genos’ (race or tribe) with the Latin word ‘cide’ (to kill). After witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust, Lemkin campaigned to have genocide recognized as a crime under international law, and in December 1948 his efforts gave way to the adoption of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, which came into effect in January 1951.

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