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The contemporary concern for human rights is inextricably linked to the crimes against humanity by the German National Socialist government in the period 1933–45 and the insufficient reaction from abroad. The initial inhumanity of the Nazis, as well as of the Italian Fascists before the war, culminated in an explicit programme to exterminate Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and other ‘subhuman species’, especially in the German-occupied territories. One of the purposes of the newly-established United Nations was to see to it that this would never happen again.
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Baehr, P.R., Gordenker, L. (1994). Human Rights. In: The United Nations in the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23263-5_5
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