In his closing speech at the #Nuremberg Trials in 1946, British chief prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross used the term #genocide to describe the Nazis’ “deliberate and systematic plan” to wipe out peoples and cultures.
Shawcross revisited the evidence about the Einsatzgruppen and Auschwitz.
But he also reminded the Tribunal that #genocide had not been limited to the murder of Jews and Gypsies.
But he also reminded the Tribunal that #genocide had not been limited to the murder of Jews and Gypsies.
Shawcross emphasized that the Nazis had pursued genocide “in different forms” in Poland, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Alsace-Lorraine.
The method applied to the Polish intelligentsia, he noted, was “outright annihilation,” whereas in Alsace deportation was the program of choice.
In the German-occupied Soviet Union, the technique was death by starvation. In Bohemia and Moravia, the Nazis embarked on a policy of forced Germanization.
Soviet chief prosecutor Roman Rudenko also used the term #genocide in his closing speech a few days later.
He expressed outrage at the atrocities committed by the Hitlerites and upheld the right of the Allied nations “to punish those who made enslavement and genocide their aim.”
He expressed outrage at the atrocities committed by the Hitlerites and upheld the right of the Allied nations “to punish those who made enslavement and genocide their aim.”
Russia is carrying out an illegal war of aggression in Ukraine. It has committed crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
It has also embarked on "deukrainization."
It has also embarked on "deukrainization."
If you've read the RIA-Novosti piece, if you've seen images of Bucha, if you're following all this and still think "deukrainization" isn't #genocide, please have another look at the term's definition.
This is not a matter of semantics. Genocide demands action.
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