"A crime without a name"
Winston Churchill, Raphael Lemkin and the
World War II origins of the word "genocide"
On August 24, 1941, only two months after Germany's surprise attack of Soviet Russia on June 22, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered a live broadcast from London. Only a year before the German attack had concentrated on the bombardment of British cities. Now the Prime Minister described dramatically the barbarity of the German occupation in Russia:
"The ag...
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