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Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe.

By: Ludi, Regula.
Material type: TextTextSeries: eBooks on Demand.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (282 p.).ISBN: 9781139552370.Subject(s): Reparations for historical injustices -- Europe | War victims -- Legal status, laws, etc | World War, 1939-1945 -- Claims | World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe | World War, 1939-1945 -- ReparationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar EuropeDDC classification: 940.531422094 Online resources: Click here to view this ebook.
Contents:
Cover; Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Transitional Justice - or Negotiated History?; Comparison and an Analytical Concept of Reparations; 2 War's End and Blueprints for a New World Order; The Grim Idealism of Postwar Reconstruction; THE BATTLE FOR PEACE: POSTWAR PLANNING; American Postwar Planning and the Victims of Nazi Persecution; Jewish Visions; CHANGING PERCEPTIONS: THE DP PROBLEM; Nonrepatriable DPs: A Fledgling Concept of the Nazi Victim; REPARATIONS IN PARIS
Precedent or Incidental Patchwork? The International Framework of the 1940s3 France: The Dialectics of Suffering and Sacrifice; Figures and Losses: The Historical Experience of Nazi and Vichy Persecution; MARCEL PAUL'S FILE; RESTORATION OF THE REPUBLICAN ORDER; Property Restitution; The Claims of Deportation Victims; COMBATANTS WITHOUT WEAPONS: A GENEALOGY OF FRENCH REPARATIONS; The Shadow of the Great War; Integration by Assimilation and Assimilation by Integration; THE MORAL GRAMMAR OF REDRESS; Talking of Victimization; Resistance Inflation and the Thirty Years' War of Charles de Gaulle
A Moral Tale with Universal LessonsCOMPENSATION PRACTICES; Exclusion; RÉPARATIONS À LA FRANÇAISE; 4 Germany: Hitler's Many Victims and the Survivors of Nazi Persecution; THE STRUGGLE AGAINST HITLER'S DEMON IN THE TRANSITION PERIOD; Between Self-Help and Relief: The Situation after Liberation; Fledgling Reparations: The Bavarian Example; UNDER ALLIED AUSPICES: THE FOUNDATIONS OF GERMAN REPARATIONS; Priority of Property Restitution; Fighting the Battle Alone; VICTIMHOOD INFLATION AND THE POLITICS OF AMNESTY AND INTEGRATION; An Ill-Fated Marriage: Reparations and Denazification
The Final Solution as a Metaphor for German Suffering"Wiedergutmachung" for Former Nazis? German Victims and Victims of the Germans; THE TIDE IS TURNING: MUNICH - LUXEMBOURG - LONDON; Auerbach's Fall; Shaking Hands in Wassenaar: German-Jewish Negotiations; The London Debt Agreement and Reparations Diplomacy; BEHIND PARAGRAPHS AND FIGURES: REPARATIONS PRAXIS; Compensation Machinery; The Daily Routines of Abuse and Redress in the Life of the Weil Family of Nuremberg; "Headaches and Heartaches": Deadlines and Competences; Impaired Health; Loss of Income and Historical Interpretation
Documents, Testimony, and Affidavits: The Sources of Truth and the Truth of the SourcesOne Man's Lonely Struggle for Justice and Veracity; TYPICAL NAZI WRONGS: AN EMERGING CONCEPT; In Defense of Moral Capital: A Merit-Based Ideal of the Victim; Antitotalitarianism and the Shifting Semantics of Victimhood; Racial Persecution or Innate Criminal Disposition? Sinti and Roma; GERMAN "GUILT MANAGEMENT"; 5 Switzerland: Neutralizing the Past; NEUTRAL OBLIGATIONS? SWISS PARTICIPATION IN THE POSTWAR SETTLEMENT; Disentanglement: Swiss Responses to International Desires in the Area of Restitution
Foreign Nazi Victims and the Disappearance and Reappearance of Heirless Assets
Summary: A history of reparations from a comparative and transnational perspective, tracing back to their origins in the final years of the Second World War.
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Cover; Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Transitional Justice - or Negotiated History?; Comparison and an Analytical Concept of Reparations; 2 War's End and Blueprints for a New World Order; The Grim Idealism of Postwar Reconstruction; THE BATTLE FOR PEACE: POSTWAR PLANNING; American Postwar Planning and the Victims of Nazi Persecution; Jewish Visions; CHANGING PERCEPTIONS: THE DP PROBLEM; Nonrepatriable DPs: A Fledgling Concept of the Nazi Victim; REPARATIONS IN PARIS

Precedent or Incidental Patchwork? The International Framework of the 1940s3 France: The Dialectics of Suffering and Sacrifice; Figures and Losses: The Historical Experience of Nazi and Vichy Persecution; MARCEL PAUL'S FILE; RESTORATION OF THE REPUBLICAN ORDER; Property Restitution; The Claims of Deportation Victims; COMBATANTS WITHOUT WEAPONS: A GENEALOGY OF FRENCH REPARATIONS; The Shadow of the Great War; Integration by Assimilation and Assimilation by Integration; THE MORAL GRAMMAR OF REDRESS; Talking of Victimization; Resistance Inflation and the Thirty Years' War of Charles de Gaulle

A Moral Tale with Universal LessonsCOMPENSATION PRACTICES; Exclusion; RÉPARATIONS À LA FRANÇAISE; 4 Germany: Hitler's Many Victims and the Survivors of Nazi Persecution; THE STRUGGLE AGAINST HITLER'S DEMON IN THE TRANSITION PERIOD; Between Self-Help and Relief: The Situation after Liberation; Fledgling Reparations: The Bavarian Example; UNDER ALLIED AUSPICES: THE FOUNDATIONS OF GERMAN REPARATIONS; Priority of Property Restitution; Fighting the Battle Alone; VICTIMHOOD INFLATION AND THE POLITICS OF AMNESTY AND INTEGRATION; An Ill-Fated Marriage: Reparations and Denazification

The Final Solution as a Metaphor for German Suffering"Wiedergutmachung" for Former Nazis? German Victims and Victims of the Germans; THE TIDE IS TURNING: MUNICH - LUXEMBOURG - LONDON; Auerbach's Fall; Shaking Hands in Wassenaar: German-Jewish Negotiations; The London Debt Agreement and Reparations Diplomacy; BEHIND PARAGRAPHS AND FIGURES: REPARATIONS PRAXIS; Compensation Machinery; The Daily Routines of Abuse and Redress in the Life of the Weil Family of Nuremberg; "Headaches and Heartaches": Deadlines and Competences; Impaired Health; Loss of Income and Historical Interpretation

Documents, Testimony, and Affidavits: The Sources of Truth and the Truth of the SourcesOne Man's Lonely Struggle for Justice and Veracity; TYPICAL NAZI WRONGS: AN EMERGING CONCEPT; In Defense of Moral Capital: A Merit-Based Ideal of the Victim; Antitotalitarianism and the Shifting Semantics of Victimhood; Racial Persecution or Innate Criminal Disposition? Sinti and Roma; GERMAN "GUILT MANAGEMENT"; 5 Switzerland: Neutralizing the Past; NEUTRAL OBLIGATIONS? SWISS PARTICIPATION IN THE POSTWAR SETTLEMENT; Disentanglement: Swiss Responses to International Desires in the Area of Restitution

Foreign Nazi Victims and the Disappearance and Reappearance of Heirless Assets

A history of reparations from a comparative and transnational perspective, tracing back to their origins in the final years of the Second World War.

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Ludi, a researcher on the Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland, examines the idea of reparations from the last years of WW II, when victims of Nazi persecution first articulated demands for large-scale indemnification, and later when demands for compensation for those who experienced harm escalated. Comparative and transnational in focus, her book explains how simultaneous claims for reparations in New York, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv established a new model of political morality. Ludi's major contribution is in interpreting how those in France, Germany, and Switzerland who sought reparations defined their reparations claims and their meaning. She underscores the similarity in their goals and strategies. The quest for reparations became "a new code in dealing with gruesome events of the past and shaping relations between the state, the general public, and individuals in light of that history." Reparations became a "language," a way of articulating the unspeakable. In each case, claimants defined their injuries as wrongs with lasting consequences. States needed to address them with forms of monetary redress. This "specifically Western idea of personhood" at the heart of post-WW II reparations ideology became internationalized in the 1990s and afterward. Summing Up: Recommended. Faculty, professionals. J. D. Smith University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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