the guy who invented the concept in autumn of 1944, raphael lemkin, a rather wonderful character, wasly upset that it wasn't on the list of crimes, and so he flew himself to london to get it into the indictment, which is he succeeded in doing as a war crime, but not as a crime on its own. some people looking at nuremberg today, they are deeply disturbed that not enough room and space was given to the experiences, and the stories and the testimonies of victims — in particular, jewish victims of the nazi holocaust. none, none was given. and still, when i go onto youtube and watch little extracts of witnesses being examined by prosecutors or by defence counsel, it's almost cringe—making. there is one guy in particular, samuel rajzman — literally one of the only survivors of the treblinka extermination camp, the gas chambers — and you see the way in which he's examined and you think, "will you give this guy a break?" he's literally been liberated a few weeks earlier, and they're coming down on him like a tonne of bricks. it's disconcerting. and that's a change of values. today, it would b