Repressed, Remitted, Rejected : : German Reparations Debts to Poland and Greece / / Hartmut Rübner, Dr. Karl Heinz Roth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Roth, Dr. Karl Heinz,; Rübner, Hartmut,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (442 p.)

Since unification, the Federal Republic of Germany has made vaunted efforts to make amends for the crimes of the Third Reich. Yet it remains the case that the demands for restitution by many countries that were occupied during the Second World War are unresolved, and recent demands from Greece and Poland have only reignited old debates. This book reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Greece and gives a thorough accounting of these debates. Working from the perspective of international law, it deepens the scholarly discourse around the issue, clarifying the ‘never-ending story’ of German reparations policy and making a principled call for further action. A compilation of primary sources comprising 125 annotated key texts (512 pages) on the complexity of reparations discussions covering the period between 1941 and the end of 2017 is available for free on the Berghahn Books website, doi: 10.3167/9781800732575.dd.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface to the English Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Methodological and Historical Aspects of the Reparations Problem -- Part I The Price of Plunder -- Chapter 1 Exploitation and Destruction: The Occupation of Poland (1939–1945) -- Chapter 2 The Occupation and Plunder of Greece (1941–1944) -- Chapter 3 Testing Grounds of Occupation Policy: Poland and Greece in Comparison with the Rest of Nazi-Occupied Europe -- Chapter 4 Allied Reparations Policies: From Joint Planning to the Cold War -- Chapter 5 Poland as Part of the Eastern Reparations Zone (1945–1953) -- Chapter 6 Developments in the Western Reparations Zone (1945–1951) The Conceptual Guidelines of Britain and the United States -- Part III Divide et Impera -- Chapter 7 The Reparations Policy of the West German Power Elite to the End of the 1980s -- Chapter 8 Greece on the Sidelines Once Again -- Chapter 9 Interim Conclusions -- Chapter 10 The Two-plus-Four Treaty and the Exclusion of the Reparations Question -- Chapter 11 Developments since the 1990s -- Chapter 12 Greece Comes Away Empty-Handed -- Chapter 13 New Conflicts: The Controversy Surrounding German Reparations Debts since 2015, and the Problem of ‘Remembrance Culture’ -- Chapter 14 Guilt and Debt: The Extent of Germany’s Reparations Debts and What Has Been Paid So Far -- Chapter 15 Arguments in Favour of a Final Reparations Amendment to the Two-plus-Four Treaty -- Appendix: Notes and Documents in the Compilation of Primary Sources -- Abbreviations -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index