The very Allies who at Nuremberg tried Nazi leaders on charges of carrying out “deportation and other inhumane acts” against civilian populations did the same thing less than a hundred miles away. This is why the first draft of the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention outlawed the “forced and systematic exile of individuals representing the culture of a group,” but the final version did not. The provision was deleted at the insistence of the US delegate, who pointed out that it “might be interpreted as embracing forced transfers of minority groups such as have already been carried out by members of
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