Lemkin in Nuremburg

Category: Genocide

Lemkin was a critic of the Nuremburg trials because of their leanency with the convicted. The Germans were not convicted for crimes commited before the war, only those commited in the territorys the occupied. Lemkin wanted the trials to be a place where he could promote his idea of genocide and get it internationally recognized. The victors of the war just, "wanted him [Lemkin] to just leave us alone so we could convict these guys of mass murder."