Lemkin in DC

Category: Genocide

When Lemkin arrived in Washington, DC in 1942, he became the Chief Consulant for the Board of Economic Warfare and the Foreign Economic Administration. In 1944, the US War Deparment hired him as an international law expert. While in DC, he constantly lobbyed for intervention in the mass execution occuring in Nazi occupied Europe. He even met with the vice president Henry Wallace, but was given no response. When he failed there, he moved on to President Roosevelt, who found it hard to pass a law on barbarity at the present wartime.