PLEASE HELP!!! I WILL FAN AND MEDAL!!!!!!!!!!!!Read the quote by Raphael Lemkin. [Genocide is the] criminal intent to destroy or to cripple permanently a human group. The acts are directed against groups as such, and individuals are selected for destruction only because they belong to these groups. —Raphael Lemkin

What is most significant about this quote by Raphael Lemkin?

Raphael Lemkin’s definition was the accepted version out of many.

Raphael Lemkin’s definition was not accepted until after the Holocaust.

Raphael Lemkin spoke these words on his death bed.

Raphael Lemkin spoke these words to the United Nations in 1945.
I THINK ITS B

I would say you are very correct in saying b. It was because of the Holocaust that the United Nations and the world put their attention into defining genocide. Now it is clearly defined so that something like the Holocaust never happens again. Hope this helps!

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MrZieleniewo MrZieleniewo · Answer 2 · 2018-09-04T15:05:10+02:00

B. Raphael Lemkin's definition of genocide was not accepted until after the Holocaust.

Raphael Lemkin had been studying the problem of mass killings of a people group since the 1920s, in regard to Turkish slaughter of Armenians in 1915. He coined the term "genocide" in 1944, in reference then also to the Holocaust. The term uses Greek language roots and means "killing of a race" of people. Lemkin served as an advisor to Justice Robert Jackson, the lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. "Crimes against humanity" was the charge used at the Nuremberg trials, since no international legal definition of "genocide" had yet been accepted. Ultimately, Lemkin was able to persuade the United Nations to accept the definition of genocide and codify it into international law. In December, 1948, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which made use of a number of Lemkin's ideas on the subject.