ABSTRACT
Since the mid-1990s, political, legal, and historical debates about Nazi theft and confiscation of property, the use of slave labor during World War II, and restitution and compensation have reemerged. Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy presents completely new historical research on these issues conducted worldwide.This volume responds to concern about Holocaust era assets in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. It focuses on both reexamination of the history of National Socialist property theft and employment of forced labor in the wartime economy, and the compensation and restitution solutions advanced in various European and Latin American countries since 1945.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|28 pages
At the Nexus of Justice, Media Coverage, Historical Scholarship and Politics
part 2|30 pages
Commissioned History
part 3|42 pages
Research on Slave and Forced Labor
part 4|72 pages
National Socialist Theft: Banking, Industry, Insurance and Works of Art
part 5|132 pages
History as Catharsis: Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past in Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Austria - A Comparison
part |164 pages
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