Holocaust Restitution : Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2005]
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Holocaust Restitution Timeline
- Introduction
- Part I: Overview
- 1. International Law and the Holocaust
- 2. The State Department, Nazi Gold, and the Search for Holocaust Assets
- 3. Confronting History: Restitution and the Historians
- 4. Holocaust Litigation and Human Rights Jurisprudence
- 5. A Tale of Two Cities: Administering the Holocaust Settlements in Brooklyn and Berlin
- 6. How Swiss Banks and German Companies Came to Terms with the Wrenching Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II: A Defense Perspective
- 7. Why Won't These SOBs Give Me My Money? A Survivor's Perspective
- Part II. The Bank Litigation
- 8. A Litigator's Postscript to the Swiss Banks and Holocaust Litigation Settlements: How Justice Was Served
- 9. Rewriting the Holocaust History of the Swiss Banks: A Growing Scandal
- 10. The French Holocaust-Era Claims Process
- 11. The French Bank Holocaust Settlement
- 12. Unholy Profits: Holocaust Restitution and the Vatican Bank
- Part III. The Slave Labor Litigation
- 13. Where Morality Meets Money
- 14. The Negotiations on Compensation for Nazi Forced Laborers
- 15. German Economy and the Foundation Initiative: An Act of Solidarity for Victims of National Socialism
- 16. Processing of Claims for Slave and Forced Labor: Expediency versus Accuracy?
- 17. Corporate Profits and the Holocaust: A Dissent from the Monetary Argument
- 18. It's Not about the Money: A Survivor's Perspective on the German Foundation Initiative
- 19. Germany's Reexamination of Its Past through the Lens of the Holocaust Litigation
- 20. Austria Confronts Her Past
- Part IV. The Insurance Litigation
- 21. Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims: Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Remedies
- 22. The Road to Compensation of Life Insurance Policies: The Foundation Law and ICHEIC
- 23. ICHEIC: Excellent Concept but Inept Implementation
- Part V. The Looted Art Litigation
- 24. The Holocaust Claims Processing Office: New York State's Approach to Resolving Holocaust-Era Art Claims
- 25. Portrait of Wally: The U.S. Government's Role in Recovering Holocaust Looted Art
- 26. Whose Art Is It Anyway?
- Part VI. The Litigation's Legacy
- 27. The Unfinished Business of the Unfinished Business of World War II
- 28. Poor Justice: Holocaust Restitution and Forgotten, Indigent Survivors
- 29. The Holocaust Restitution Enterprise: An Israeli Perspective
- 30. Historical Reparation Claims: The Defense Perspective
- 31. The Legacy of Holocaust Class Action Suits: Have They Broken Ground for Other Cases of Historical Wrongs?
- About the Contributors
- Index
- About the Editors