Remembering the Nazi hunters

The work of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, instituted by the Allied victors after the war, is regarded as a valiant, if flawed, effort to bring Nazi leaders to book for these and other war crimes

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IN PURSUIT The Men and Women Who Hunted the Nazis Andrew Nagorski Simon & Schuster 393 pages; Rs 699 Among World War II's multiple legacies to politics and society the term "genocide" is probably the most significant. It entered the legal lexicon as a new category of international crime in the mid-1940s following more than a decade of lobbying by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish refugee and lawyer. Lemkin had been warning Europe's leaders since 1933 that Adolf Hitler was determined to exterminate an entire race. His appeals fell on receptive ears only after the tally ...

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Remembering the Nazi hunters