Holocaust Restitution : : Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy / / ed. by Michael J. Bazyler, Roger P. Alford.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alford, Roger P.,; Azizi, Fiorentina,; Bank, Roland,; Bazyler, Michael J.,; Becker, Caryn,; Berenbaum, Michael,; Boyd, Lee,; Buergenthal, Thomas,; Dugot, Monica S.,; Eizenstat, Stuart E.,; Freedman, Eric,; Frumkin, Si,; Gerstel, Linda,; Hayes, Peter,; Hennig, Kai,; Kamin, Mitchell A.,; Kent, Roman,; Kill, Lawrence,; Korman, Edward R.,; Lambsdorff, Otto Graf,; Lash, David A.,; Lessing, Hannah,; Neuborne, Burt,; Pell, Owen C.,; Ratner, Morris,; Samuels, Shimon,; Schoenberg, E. Randol,; Slany, William Z.,; Spiegler, Howard N.,; Sturman, Deborah,; Swift, Robert A.,; Taylor, Gideon,; Ulsamer, Lothar,; Weisberg, Richard,; Weiss, Melvyn I.,; Witten, Roger M.,; Zabludoff, Sidney,; Zuckerman, Arie,
• HerausgeberIn: Alford, Roger P.,; Bazyler, Michael J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)

Table of Contents

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