A review on crime of genocide in Holocaust: a brief comparison with human rights violations in Palestine

This paper takes an analytical approach to look at a crime of genocide, the holocaust. The word genocide itself was coined after the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a systematic persecution and death of six million Jews, which commenced in 1933 and ended in May 1945, when the Allies occupied Nazi Germany in World War II. It is one of the most offensive violations of human rights in the history of the modern world. This paper focused on three objectives: understanding the legal context of the Holocaust, evaluating legal responses, and studying reparations efforts. Historical evidence will be examined to understand the legal framework during the Holocaust, the effectiveness of legal mechanisms in achieving justice afterwards assessed, and ethical considerations for reparations explored. A brief comparison as to whether the historical Holocaust has similarity with violations of human rights occurring in Palestine will be discussed. Some research stated that what is happening in Palestine is genocide, while others concluded that it is an act of war. The methodology used in this paper is purely doctrinal. This study is significant because in both occurrences, gross violations of human rights have been committed unto defenseless humans.