What did Lemkin want to prevent the rise of by creating genocide laws?
Future Hitlers
New Stalinist Regimes
Revolutionary Uprisings
Global Conflicts
Answer
To prevent future Hitlers, Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" and advocated for international laws against it. He believed that coining this term and enacting genocide laws would help to prevent the kind of atrocities committed by Hitler, particularly concerning mass killings of large population groups based on ethnicity, religion, or other identity-related factors.
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Lemkin's coinage of genocide primarily described the policies of which country?
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Lemkin's activism was spurred by the absence of what?
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