Eugène Aroneanu

Eugène Aroneanu (* in Romania ; † 1960 ) was a Romanian lawyer , resistance fighter and author of several works on international law.

In the mid-1930s he emigrated to Paris . When World War II broke out in September 1939 , he directed radio broadcasts to Romania, and when France was occupied in 1940, he joined the Resistance and operated underground under the name Aréne . In 1943 he managed to escape to Switzerland .

Aroneanu wrote 58 publications. In 1945 he was given the task of creating documentation of the Nazi war atrocities for the Nuremberg Trials . In addition, he drafted a corresponding legal plea with the intention of extending the indictment of the treatment of the extermination of the Jews, intended primarily by the British, merely as a crime against peace and war crimes, to include the new territory of crimes against humanity under international law .

Publications (selection)

Concentration camp. Factual account of the crimes committed against humanity; Document F 321 for the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg ; Working group “Das Licht”; o. O. (Baden-Baden) 1947. (Collected testimonies from concentration camp inmates)
The crime against humanity . Schröder, Baden-Baden 1947.
La définition de l'aggression. Exposé objectif , with a foreword by René Cassin . Les Editions Internationales, Paris 1958 (405 pages).
Le crime against l'humanite . Dalloz, Paris 1961 (322 pages).

Notes and individual references

↑ Hannah Arendt commented on this point of view: “The London Statute on which the Nuremberg Trials are based has [...] defined the 'crimes against humanity' as' inhuman acts', from which the German translation then turns into the well-known 'crimes against humanity '- as if the Nazis had simply lacked humanity when they sent millions into the gas chambers, truly the understatement of the century ”.

personal data
SURNAME	Aroneanu, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Arene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian resistance fighter and author
DATE OF BIRTH	19th century or 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Romania
DATE OF DEATH	1960

[1] Hannah Arendt commented on this point of view: “The London Statute on which the Nuremberg Trials are based has [...] defined the 'crimes against humanity' as' inhuman acts', from which the German translation then turns into the well-known 'crimes against humanity '- as if the Nazis had simply lacked humanity when they sent millions into the gas chambers, truly the understatement of the century ”.