Documents on the Genocide Convention from the American, British, and Russian Archives

Anton Weiss-Wendt is Research Professor at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway. His recent publications include Racial Science in Hitler's Europe, 1939-1945 (2013) and The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reassessment and Commemoration (2013).

Through meticulous research, Anton Weiss-Wendt has assembled the most important documents covering the history of the UN Genocide Convention. This a landmark contribution to Genocide Studies and International Legal History, and an invaluable resource to students and scholars for generations to come.

• Volume IAcknowledgementsList of Acronyms and AbbreviationsList of Archival CollectionsIntroductionI. Genocide: From a Concept to a United Nations Resolution, 1933–1946 II. The United Nations Secretariat Draft Genocide Convention, 1947 III. Ad Hoc Committee on Genocide, January–August 1948 IV. Debates on the Draft Genocide Convention in the UN General Assembly, September–December 1948 V. Lobbying in Behalf of the Genocide Convention, 1947–1948 United Nations Concention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: The Three Drafts, 1947-48Further ReadingIndexVolume IIVI. The United Kingdom Government Split on the Issue of Accession to the Genocide Convention, 1949–1953 VII. The United States Delays Action on the Genocide Convention, 1949–1962 VIII. The Issue of Reservations to the Genocide Convention, 1949–1952 IX. Indicting Communist Countries for Genocide, 1949–1959 X. The Genocide Convention vs. Nuremberg Principles, Draft Covenants on Human Rights, and/or the Draft Code of Offenses against the Peace and Security of Mankind, 1949–1954 XI. The Korean War, 1950–1953 XII. We Charge Genocide: The Campaign to Indict the United States for Racial Discrimination, 1951–1952 XIII. The Lonely Voice of Raphael Lemkin, 1949–1959 XIV. The United Kingdom Inches Closer to Acceding to the Genocide Convention, 1962–1968 XV. The Public Campaign Pro and Counter US Ratification of the Genocide Convention, 1970–1977 XVI. The “Armenian Question,” 1964–1985 XVII. A Final Push for the UN Genocide Convention, 1983–1988Further ReadingIndex