The genocide convention aimed to avoid equating all mass destruction with the Holocaust

Evidence

The denials are usually based on the assumption that anything less than Auschwitz is not genocide. The 1948 Geneva Convention banning genocide was an effort, however, to avoid the conflation of all organized destruction of people with the Holocaust, while still learning from it. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 464

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the intended scope of the 1948 genocide convention against the common ‘only Auschwitz counts’ benchmark.

Related

• The 1948 genocide convention’s punish requirement deters signatories from naming genocide (similarity 0.82)
• Genocide’s legal definition includes preventing procreation of a targeted group (similarity 0.79)
• Genocide targets a group as an entity, not individuals (similarity 0.79)
• Resisting genocide requires first confronting one’s own traditions’ crimes (similarity 0.79)