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When did the Genocide Convention enter into force?

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Railway tracks lead to the brick entrance building and guard tower of Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp near Oswiecim, Poland. — Genocide Freight train tracks leading to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest concentration camp, near Oświęcim, Poland.

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, also known as the Genocide Convention, entered into force in 1951.1