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Lt. Col. Murray C. Bernays

<p>Lt. Col. Murray C. Bernays, the lawyer who used Polish Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin's newly minted term "genocide" to create the ex-post facto case against the Germans for "crimes gainst peace" and "crimes against humanity" at Nuremburg was Edward Bernays' ex-brother-in-law. His name was Murray Cohen and he changed his name to his wife's more illustrious one when he went to work for Edward Bernays before the war.

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