- Title Pages
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ABSTRACTS
- Introduction Repairing the Past: Compensation for Victims of Human Rights Violations
-
Chapter 1 Economic Reparations for Grave Human Rights Violations -
Chapter 2 The Reparations Policy for Human Rights Violations in Chile -
Chapter 3 The Reparations Program in Brazil -
Chapter 4 The Reparations Proposals of the Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Haiti -
Chapter 5 Overview of the Reparations Program in South Africa -
Chapter 6 Reparations in Malawi -
Chapter 7 Report on Redress -
Chapter 8 Compensation for the Victims of September 11 -
Chapter 9 The United Nations Compensation Commission -
Chapter 10 German Reparations to the Jews after World War II -
Chapter 11 Making Good Again: German Compensation for Forced and Slave Laborers -
Chapter 12 Justice and Reparations -
Chapter 13 Reparations, International Law, and Global Justice -
Chapter 14 Justice in Context -
Chapter 15 Reparations and Civil Litigation -
Chapter 16 Narrowing the Micro and Macro -
Chapter 17 Reparations and Mental Health -
Chapter 18 Reparation of Sexual Violence in Democratic Transitions -
Chapter 19 Financing Reparations Programs -
Chapter 20 Reparations and Microfinance Schemes - Argentina
- Chile
- Brazil
- El Salvador
- Haiti
- South Africa
- MALAWI
- USA
- USA
- Germany
- Germany Forced and Slave Labor
- INDEX
German Reparations to the Jews after World War II
German Reparations to the Jews after World War II
A Turning Point in the History of Reparations
- Chapter:
- (p.390) Chapter 10 German Reparations to the Jews after World War II
- Source:
- The Handbook of Reparations
- Author(s):
Ariel Colonomos
Andrea Armstrong
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The post-world war II German-Israeli reparations program is the largest, most comprehensive reparations program ever implemented. Traditionally, reparations were supported by the vanquished and were designed to compensate the victor for the damages caused during the war. The Wiedergutmachung (literally “making the good again”) program as it is called in Germany, or Shilumim (the payments) as Israelis usually prefer to refer to it, innovates in many areas and goes beyond this interstate framework. Jewish leaders participated in the Luxembourg negotiations that led to the signature of the 1952 treaty, and community networks played a crucial role in the distribution of the money to the victims. Civil society groups played an instrumental role in the United States as plans for reparations were being discussed during the war. Neither the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) nor Israel existed during the war. Reparations have been paid to the state of Israel and were paid to Jewish Holocaust survivors regardless of their nationality. The FRG benefited politically and economically from this treaty. It was able to enter the international arena and establish diplomatic relations with Israel, whose economy greatly benefited from the money it received.
Keywords: World War II, Germany, Israel, Jews, reparations program, Wiedergutmachung, Shilumim, Holocaust
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- Title Pages
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ABSTRACTS
- Introduction Repairing the Past: Compensation for Victims of Human Rights Violations
-
Chapter 1 Economic Reparations for Grave Human Rights Violations -
Chapter 2 The Reparations Policy for Human Rights Violations in Chile -
Chapter 3 The Reparations Program in Brazil -
Chapter 4 The Reparations Proposals of the Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Haiti -
Chapter 5 Overview of the Reparations Program in South Africa -
Chapter 6 Reparations in Malawi -
Chapter 7 Report on Redress -
Chapter 8 Compensation for the Victims of September 11 -
Chapter 9 The United Nations Compensation Commission -
Chapter 10 German Reparations to the Jews after World War II -
Chapter 11 Making Good Again: German Compensation for Forced and Slave Laborers -
Chapter 12 Justice and Reparations -
Chapter 13 Reparations, International Law, and Global Justice -
Chapter 14 Justice in Context -
Chapter 15 Reparations and Civil Litigation -
Chapter 16 Narrowing the Micro and Macro -
Chapter 17 Reparations and Mental Health -
Chapter 18 Reparation of Sexual Violence in Democratic Transitions -
Chapter 19 Financing Reparations Programs -
Chapter 20 Reparations and Microfinance Schemes - Argentina
- Chile
- Brazil
- El Salvador
- Haiti
- South Africa
- MALAWI
- USA
- USA
- Germany
- Germany Forced and Slave Labor
- INDEX