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Author Pross, Christian.

Title Paying for the past : the struggle over reparations for surviving victims of the Nazi terror / Christian Pross ; translated by Belinda Cooper
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

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Description xxii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. History -- 3. Damage to Body and Health -- 4. Examiners and Victims -- 5. Taking Stock -- Making Good Again: Historical and Ethical Questions / Erich H. Loewy -- Appendix A. Reparations Claims Forms -- Appendix B. Tables -- Appendix C. Conferences on Persecution-Induced Health Damage
Summary In Paying for the Past, physician and historian Christian Pross untangles the complicated history of reparations in West Germany, from the American military government's 1947 Law Number 59 (Restitution of Property Stolen in the Course of the "Aryanization of the Economy") to West Germany's Federal Restitution Law of 1957 and into the 1970s. When first published in German in 1988, Pross's landmark research caused a furor because it exposed the hostility of the West German people and the bitter political opposition within the government toward reparations legislation and the Holocaust victims seeking restitution
Paying for the Past uncovers the inconsistencies, distortions, and veiled anti-Semitic attitudes in West Germany's official version of its reparations history. Now available in English for the first time, this edition of Paying for the Past contains a new preface by the author and an afterword by medical ethicist Erich Loewy, which provides an international context for the ethical issues raised by the West German experiences with reparations
Notes Originally published as Wiedergutmachung: der Kleinkrieg gegen die Opfer: Athenaum, 1988
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-249) and index
Notes Translated from the German
Subject Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1990-
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1945-1990.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Reparations -- Germany, Western
Holocaust survivors -- Diseases -- Germany, Western
Holocaust survivors -- Mental health -- Germany, Western
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Reparations -- Germany (West)
Holocaust survivors -- Diseases -- Germany (West)
Holocaust survivors -- Mental health -- Germany (West)
SUBJECT Germany -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105263
Germany (West) -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115208
LC no. 97039245
ISBN 0801858240 alkaline paper
Other Titles Wiedergutmachung. English