ABSTRACT
The Hermann Goring Werke was a creation of the Nazi government and oriented completely to the German war effort. This chapter deals with Austria's "moral" obligation as the subject of inquiry. Such indemnification would be akin to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Marshall Plan aid of which Austria, in particular, was a major beneficiary. The supply of German and Austrian labor was being increasingly depleted by the need for more "warm bodies" in the military campaigns, especially the one in the Soviet Union. Despite the fact that Stiefel's volume was financed by the Austrian Association of Insurance Companies, it is clearly an objective study in which the investigator was able to exercise his judgment without any interference from interested parties. Dieter Stiefel's summarizes well the economic and political environment within which the insurance industry operated under the Nazi rule and the political milieu of the postwar period in Austria.
