In what work did Lemkin first introduce the term genocide?
Mein Kampf
Axis Rule in Occupied Europe
The Trial of Civilization
War and Peace
Answer
In Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, Raphael Lemkin first coined the term "genocide" to describe the systematic extermination of a racial, ethnic, religious, or national group. Lemkin's concept of genocide encompassed not only the physical destruction of a group but also acts aimed at preventing births within the group, forcibly transferring their children, and deliberately inflicting mental and physical harm upon them.
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