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May 4, 1945. On this date, the US Army liberated Gunskirchen, a subcamp of Mauthausen in Austria.
January 16, 1944. On this date, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau Jr. met to discuss the rescue of European Jews.
December 11, 1945. On this date, the film "The Nazi Plan" is shown as evidence at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
February 4-11, 1945. On this date, Allied power leaders met at Yalta in the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar order.
July 4, 1946. On this date, there was a massacre of Jews in Kielce, Poland.
October 1, 1946. On this date, the International Military Tribunal sentenced 12 Nazi officials to death.
November 5, 1988. On this date, the US ratified the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
July 17, 1998. On this date, the Rome Statute established the International Criminal Court, a permanent judicial body to try genocide and war crimes.
September 2, 1998. On this date, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found Jean-Paul Akayesu guily of genocide and crimes against humanity.
September 9, 2004. On this date, Colin Powell labelled the events in Darfur as "genocide."
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