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France Invents Slogan to Describe Nazi Massacres

Publication Date
Monday, July 29, 1946
Historical Event
The Crime Now Has a Name: “Genocide”
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Deportation and Mass Murder
Article Type
News Article
Newspaper
Muncie Evening Press
Location
Muncie, Indiana
Page Section and Number
1
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INS
Article Text
NUERNBERG. July 29. (INS) — French prosecutors at the Nuernberg war crimes tribunal demanded the death penalty today for all of the Nazi leaders on trial.

Champetier Deribes led off summation of the French case by charging the Nazi policy of exterminating whole classes and groups within a nation was "so monstrous as to be unknown in history before the birth of Hitlerism."

French demands for the death penalty followed similar action by British and American prosecutors. Russia has still to sum up.

Deribes said he had been forced to invent a new word—genocide — to describe the Nazis extermination campaign against whole populations.

He cited latest census figures to prove that "genocide" was responsible for population slumps ranging from five to 25 percent in every German-occupied country.

Deribes said Germany itself was the only country in Europe which shows a population increase.

Charles Dubost, who followed Deribes before the court, declared the defendants' responsibility for Nazis acts is heavier than that of common executioners.
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Bibliography

Lemkin, Raphael. Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation—Analysis of Government—Proposals for Redress. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1944.

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