Before the term "genocide" was coined, there were various ways of describing such events. Some languages already had words for such killings, including German (, ) and Polish (, ). In 1941, Winston Churchill, when describing the German invasion of the Soviet Union, spoke of "a crime without a name". In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" (a combination of the Ancient Greek word "génos" (γένος, meaning "race" or "people") with the Latin "caedere", "to kill") in his book "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe". The book describes the implementation of Nazi policies in occupied Europe, and cites earlier mass killings. After reading about the 1921 assassination of Talat Pasha, the main architect of the Armenian genocide, by Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian, Lemkin asked his professor why there was no law under which Talat could be charged. He later explained, "as a lawyer, I thought that a crime should not be punished by the victims, but should be punished by a court".