Lemkin’s innate curiosity confronted the nature of the German occupation. How exactly was German Nazi rule imposed? Believing the answer might be found in the minutiae of legal enactments, he started to gather Nazi decrees and ordinances, as others might collect stamps. As a lawyer, he understood that official documents often reflected underlying objectives without stating them explicitly, that a single document might be less revealing than a collection. The group was more valuable than the sum of its individual parts. He spent time at the central library in Stockholm, gathering, translating,
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