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The Genocide and Geneva Conventions: Eichmann, Lemkin, Tibet, Guatemala, and the Korean War

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The Chinese trials marked the end of the most dynamic phase of efforts globally to bring Axis war criminals to justice; such legal undertakings continue to this day, particularly in Europe. In 2011, a Munich court convicted John Demjanjuk, a native Ukrainian, of accessory to murder for being a “foreign helper” in the Sobibór death camp, where he abetted in “the murder of 27,900 Jews.”1 The Munich court sentenced him to five years in prison but immediately released him while he appealed his conviction. He died in a nursing home in Germany in the spring of 2012. Thus ended a long legal odyssey that had taken Demjanjuk from the United States to Israel, where he was convicted (later overturned on appeal) for being Ivan the Terrible, a brutal guard at Treblinka, back to the United States, and finally, Germany.2 According to Thomas Walther, the “guiding spirit of this trial” was that the “crime of the millennium [the Holocaust] was not only perpetrated by Hitler and Göring and a handful of people,” but also by “countless willing helpers who were also guilty of committing crimes.”3

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Crowe, D.M. (2014). The Genocide and Geneva Conventions: Eichmann, Lemkin, Tibet, Guatemala, and the Korean War. In: War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137037015_9

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