Question

question 2 of 4 select the paragraph in the section lawyer creates genocide term that explains why the word genocide was created. a the word genocide came from raphael lemkin. he was a polish - jewish lawyer who fled the nazi occupation of poland and arrived in the united states in 1941 b in 1943, the term genocide was included in the international military tribunal in germany. this court tried top nazi officials for crimes against humanity. these crimes included harm to others based on race, religion or politics. it also included inhumane acts committed against non - military people. c lemkin wanted to come up with a term to describe nazi crimes against european jews during world war ii. he hoped to make the word part of international law in the hopes of preventing and punishing crimes against innocent people. in 1944, he came up with the term genocide. d the united nations is a group of countries that works to resolve global conflicts. the u.n. declared genocide to be an international crime in 1948. in the 1990s, the term was applied to the violence committed during conflicts in the former yugoslavia in europe and in the african country of rwanda. an international treaty signed by about 120 countries in 1998 established the international criminal court (icc). it has the authority to punish those guilty of genocide crimes.

Explanation:

Paragraph C specifically states that Raphael Lemkin wanted to describe Nazi crimes against European Jews during World War II and came up with the term "genocide" in 1944 for this purpose.

Answer:

C