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Holocaust Reparations
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Holocaust reparations are nothing new. Following an agreement negotiated with West Germany in 1952, some survivors have been receiving compensation for decades for certain material losses. But the new campaigners wanted to plug the gaps left in the original agreement and to add substantial sums to the pot. They pursued these goals in three ways: identifying new targets (such as the Swiss banks), expanding the definition of ‘survivor’, and citing new grounds for compensation.
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The African American reparations movement is commonly perceived as a recently developed political and litigation strategy resting on the shoulders of the lawsuits and legislation designed to achieve justice for Japanese American World War II internees and victims of the Holocaust. African American reparations arguments... began long before both these movements, growing out of a larger debate over the place of African Americans in American society as well as the proper response of both whites and African Americans to slavery, Jim Crow, and the persistence of racism from the founding of this country until the present. This Part will first give a brief overview of the history of the African American reparations movement in order to suggest that the characterization of African American reparations as both recent and derivative has important political consequences. This rhetorical and political strategy enables reparations’ opponents to discount history and African Americans’ constant demand for reparations, instead presenting reparations’ proponents as opportunistic latecomers, attempting to get something for nothing. This Part will also briefly examine the work of reparations critics, tracing the major arguments that have been raised to counter the movement for reparations.
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Berlin - The German government is open to the possibility of reopening the issue of Holocaust reparations if the Israeli government makes a formal request, an official spokesman said in Berlin Wednesday. Government spokesman Thomas Steg was responding to comments that Israeli Pensions Minister Rafi Eitan made to an Israeli newspaper last week.
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"Reparations to Holocaust survivors are long overdue," Hull said in a prepared statement. "Hopefully, this bill will help ease the way for those who may get some small payment from those who must share the responsibility of one of our history's most horrendous and despicable tragedies. But no payment can ever compensate for the loss of the 6 million and the memories of man's worst inhumanity against man. Those memories will be in all of our hearts as Passover seders throughout the world recall the story of the Exodus from Egypt and as we commemorate Yom Ha'Shoah on April 30."
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Germany has paid an estimated $25 billion in reparations to Israeli Holocaust survivors, who Factor said numbered 350,000 to 400,000 at their peak. Germany ... provided more than $700 million in goods and services to the Israeli government.
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The Hungarian ambassador in Washington received a letter last week from six survivors who criticized an unusual reparations program that would pay Hungarian survivors $1,800 for each Hungarian parent or sibling killed in the Holocaust. The letter, which was organized after the Forward published an article on the program, said that “the victims do not want to be remembered in the history books as the greedy survivors who accepted the killing of their parents and siblings for any amount.”
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