Genocide During WWII The document discusses genocide during World War II. It defines genocide as the deliberate annihilation of an entire people, including a nation or ethnic, racial, or religious group. It notes that Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin first coined the term "genocide." The Holocaust, in which Hitler and Nazi Germany tried to exterminate Jews and Romani people, is provided as a key example of genocide during WWII. The document also discusses the UN Genocide Convention of 1948 that made genocide an international crime, and the International Criminal Court established in 1988 to prosecute genocide crimes.