The legal questions involved in studying genocide draw on three areas of law: human rights law, international law and criminal law. The fact of genocide is as old as humanity. This dialectic of the ancient fact, yet the modern law of genocide, follows from the observation that, historically, genocide has gone unpunished. Hitler`s famous comment „who remembers the Armenians” is often cited in this regard. The Nazis were among the most to rely confidently on the reasonable presumption that an international culture of impunity would effectively shelter the most heinous perpetrators of crimes against humanity.