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The word 'genocide'

Raphael Lemkin, a lawyer of Polish-Jewish origin - was moved to investigate the attempt to eliminate an entire people by accounts of the massacres of Armenians. He did not, however, coin the word until 1943, applying it to Nazi Germany and the Jews in a book published a year later, "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe."

John, Kifner. "New York Times". Wednesday, March 3, 2010 "Armenian Genocide of 1915: An Overview"

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_armeniangenocide.html#jumpto

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