Key Writings of Raphael Lemkin on Genocide As part of our activities to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) and to further educational activities for preventing genocide, Prevent Genocide International presents this series of Dr. Lemkin's writings on genocide.  The collection spans the years from 1933-1947 and includes items Lemkin wrote in French, German and English - as well as translations in Spanish. People often use the Internet to find the latest information on a topic, yet for a greater understanding of an issue such as prevention of genocide it is importent to examine the past. This series is a resource for all who want to understand the origins of the concept of genocide and efforts to have genocide recognized as an international crime.  As a body of writing, the series "Key writings of  Raphael Lemkin on Genocide" will provide students, scholars, teachers, activists and others with a resource for reference and further study.

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1933
"Les actes constituant un danger general (interétatique) consideres comme delites des droit des gens"  Expilications additionelles au Rapport spécial présentè à la V-me Conférence pour l'Unification du Droit Penal à Madrid (14-2O.X.1933). 

This report was published by Paris law publisher A. Pedone (13, Rue Soufflot) as part of the Librarie de la cour d'appel ed de l'order de advocates.

English translation:  "Acts Constituting a General (Transnational) Danger considered as Crimes under International Law" Translation by James T.Fussell

Lemkin wrote this German language article as an abbreviated version of the report 'General (Transnational) Danger' he originally presented in French at the 5th Conference for the Unification of Penal Law in Madrid, Spain in October 1933. The article was published in Anwaltsblatt Internationales (Lawyer Gazette International), a legal monthly based in Vienna, Austria and edited by Dr. Rudolf Braun.

Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, published in November 1944, was the first place where the word "genocide" appeared in print.  Raphael Lemkin coined the new word "genocide" in 1943 both as a continuation of his 1933 Madrid proposal and as part of his analysis of German occupation policies in Europe.

French translation:  Le règne de l'Axe en Europe occupée, Le premier paragraphe de Chapitre IX: " Génocide " de Raphaël Lemkin, 1944

Spanish translation:  Las Reglas del Eje sobre la Europa Ocupada, Primer párrafo de Capítulo IX: " Genocide " de Raphael Lemkin, 1944. Translation by Carlos Mario Molina Arrubla, May 2000

This article is a summary for the general public of  the concepts and proposals Lemkin originally presented in Chapter 9: "GENOCIDE" of Axis Rule in Occupied Europe.  Free World was a wartime  "Non-Partisan Magazine devoted to the United Nations and Democracy."

"Le crime de génocide" La Documentation Francaise, 24 septembre 1946, Notes Documentaires et Etudes No 417 (Serie Textes et Documents. - L) 

Spanish translation:  "Genocidio"  Translation by Carlos Mario Molina Arrubla, August 1999

1947
"Genocide as a Crime under International Law" American Journal of International Law, Vol. 41, No. 1 (1947), p.145-151

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