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Lemkin's coinage of genocide primarily described the policies of which country?

  • Soviet Union

  • Nazi Germany

  • Imperial Japan

  • Ottoman Empire

Answer

The term "genocide" was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944 to describe the Nazi regime's deliberate and systematic extermination of six million Jews during the Holocaust. Lemkin's concept of genocide encompassed not only the mass killing but also the intentional destruction of a group's culture and way of life. Genocide remains an international crime today under the Genocide Convention, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948.
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