The Man Who Invented Genocide: The Public Career and Consequences of Raphael Lemkin

by James J. Martin

Book Overview

gen.o.cide. n. The systematic extermination of racial and national groups, term first used in indictment of German war criminals after World War II. [

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939484145
• ISBN13: 9780939484140
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Institute for Historical Review
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

An Insightful Book - A Must Read !

Now that the U.S. has ratified the Genocide Treaty, and the hitherto unknown legal category "hate crime" is making headlines, this insightful study of the "genocide" idea, as seen through the career of Raphael Lemkin, the refugee Polish-German jurist who coined the word in 1944, has renewed relevance. Dr. Martin provides a masterful unraveling of the ways in which the specter of "genocide" has been manipulated by the powerful for political gain, and how this dubious international legal concept has done nothing to deter actual crimes against peoples. Written by an outstanding American revisionist scholar, author of numerous books, whose teaching career spanned 25 years.

I don't know !

That is the answer, what people usually have if they are ask who was the person that startet the international campaign against genozide. Raphael Lemkin, lawyer from Poland, who emigratet into the U.S.A. to fight for humanity. In his book Martin Joseph rewrites the life of Lemkin, his fight against genozide and gives an wonderful impression of the personallity of the "inventor of genozide"