German Reparations to the Jews after World War II

Colonomos, Ariel; Armstrong, Ann L.

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“…Deels was dit een interstatelijke aangelegenheid waarbij Israël compensatie kreeg voor het leed van de mensen die naar dit land waren geëmigreerd, en deels was er individuele schadevergoeding voor de slachtoffers van de Holocaust. 14 Tevens sloot West-Duitsland verschillende bilaterale en internationale verdragen om Holocaustslachtoffers te compenseren. 15 Slachtoffers hadden soms recht op een eenmalige vergoeding, levenslange maandelijkse vergoedingen, of restitutie van gestolen goederen.…”

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Bax¹,

Waardt²

2019

Tijdschrift Voor Herstelrecht

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Section: Herstelmaatregelen En De Tweede Wereldoorlogunclassified

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“…155 German reparations have been called impressive and a success by most accounts. 156 But was it all worthwhile? Did these efforts foster a spirit of reconciliation between Germans and persecuted Jews, their heirs, and Jewry in general, as well as between Germany and Israel, the proclaimed homeland of all Jews?…”

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“…The German reparations scheme did help Germany to rejoin the international community after World War II and the Holocaust, and it significantly contributed to the gradual establishment of good relations between Germany and Israel. 158 But to what extent did reconciliation happen on the individual level? It is generally assumed that individual reparations systems, if well-designed, support post-conflict reconciliation in various ways.…”

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“…Previous research emphasized the re-traumatizing experience of victims having to prove their damages to body or health before a cold bureaucracy. 160 Property rights restitution might be less complicated because objective evidence may more easily be available to support the case, but property restitution or compensation also tends to revive possibly repressed memories of traumatizing past events in connection with forced migration and other mass crimes. 161 Irrespective of the factors described concerning the parties and the design of the claims process, the inherent linkage between restitution and memorization may make restitution processes as such an extremely painful experience for victims.…”

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Between Individual Justice and Mass Claims Proceedings: Property Restitution for Victims of Nazi Persecution in Post-Reunification Germany

Dostal¹,

Strauß²,

Carlowitz³

2014

Ger. law j.

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German history of the twentieth century offers a rich resource of precedent for property restitution and compensation programs. The Federal Republic of Germany instituted different mass claims proceedings shaped to “reverse” or mitigate violations of property rights that took place as part of (a) the persecutions by the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945, (b) the Land Reform (Bodenreform) during the Soviet occupation of East German territories from 1945 to 1949, and (c) the nationalization activities of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1949 to 1990. Except for cases under the Land Reform in the Soviet zone, restitution preceded compensation as the main means of redress. All reparation schemes involved specific compensation arrangements including elaborate property evaluation systems.

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“… 4 See Colonomos and Armstrong 2006 on the West German reparations program for individual Holocaust victims (as well as to the State of Israel) as an “unprecedented landmark.” …”

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Truth Telling as Reparations

Walker

2010

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International instruments now defend a ''right to the truth'' for victims of political repression and violence and include truth telling about human rights violations as a kind of reparation as well as a form of redress. While truth telling about violations is obviously a condition of redress or repair for violations, it may not be clear how truth telling itself is a kind of reparations. By showing that concerted truth telling can satisfy four features of suitable reparations vehicles, I defend the idea that politically implemented modes of truth telling to, for, and by those who are victims of gross violation and injustice may with good reason be counted as a kind of reparations. Understanding the doubly symbolic character of reparations, however, makes clearer why truth telling is unlikely to be sufficient reparation for serious wrongs and is likely to be sensitive to the larger context of reparative activity and its social, political, and historical background.

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German Reparations to the Jews after World War II

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Between Individual Justice and Mass Claims Proceedings: Property Restitution for Victims of Nazi Persecution in Post-Reunification Germany

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