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1 online resource (432 pages) |
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Suing the Swiss banks -- German industry and its slaves -- Reclaiming prewar insurance policies -- Confronting the French banks -- Litigating holocaust looted art -- The distribution controversies -- The legacy and consequences of holocaust restitution -- The post-holocaust restitution era -- Holocaust restitution as a model for addressing other historical injustices |
| Summary |
The Holocaust was not only the greatest murder in history; it was also the greatest theft. Historians estimate that the Nazis stole roughly 230 billion to 320 billion in assets (figured in today's dollars), from the Jews of Europe. Since the revelations concerning the wartime activities of the Swiss banks first broke in the late 1990s, an ever-widening circle of complicity and wrongdoing against Jews and other victims has emerged in the course of lawsuits waged by American lawyers. These suits involved German corporations, French and Austrian banks, European insurance companies, and double the |
| Notes |
Bazyler_0814799035_c; 9780814799031_Bazyler_i_411.pdf |
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Print version record |
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Holocaust survivors -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Reparations.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Claims.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
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War reparations.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Claims.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814789681 |
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0814789684 |
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