De Bonampak al Templo Mayor

Creado en 1944 por el jurista Raphael Lemkin, el término «genocidio» designa un tipo de crimen masivo por el que un grupo es destruido intencionadamente, de forma total o parcial, en nombre de criterios nacionales, étnicos, raciales o religiosos. El siglo xx, que empezó con la aniquilación de la población armenia y terminó con el exterminio de los tutsis en Ruanda y la “limpieza étnica” en la antigua Yugoslavia, dejando entre medias las grandes masacres de la era estaliniana, la tragedia de la Shoa y el exterminio de una parte importante de la población camboyana, bien puede...

En "Breve historia del nazismo" -compendio de decenios de investigación-, Gustavo Corni sitúa la historia de ese movimiento en los contextos de la historia de Alemania y de la historia de Europa. Producto en buena parte del fracaso de la República de Weimar que alumbró la derrota de Alemania y sus aliados en la Primera Guerra Mundial y de las draconianas condiciones que le impusieron los vencedores en la Paz de Versalles, el Partido Nacionalsocialista, nacido en 1920 e indisoluble de su temprano y carismático líder Adolf Hitler, quien le imprimió sus rasgos populistas y revanchistas y...

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