Founded in 2000, the German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” is one of the largest transitional justice initiatives in history: in cooperation with its international partner organizations, it has to date paid over 4 billion euros to nearly 1.7 million survivors of forced labour during the Nazi Era. This volume provides an unparalleled look at the Foundation’s creation, operations, and prospects after nearly two decades of existence, with valuable insights not just for historians but for a range of scholars, professionals, and others involved in human rights and reconciliation efforts.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Günter Saathoff
Introduction
Constantin Goschler
Chapter 1. The Long Shadow Cast by Nazi Forced Labour: Changing Concepts of Compensation and Definitions of Persecutees since 1945
Henning Borggräfe
Chapter 2. The Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” 1999–2007:
The Final Chapter of Compensation for Nazi Injustice?
Benno Nietzel
Chapter 3. The Jewish Claims Conference and Compensation for Nazi Forced Labour 1951–2008
Benno Nietzel
Chapter 4. Compensating the Rest of the World. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
Paul Erker
Chapter 5. The Forced Labourer Payments Programme in Poland: Practices and Perceptions
Michael G. Esch
Chapter 6. Compensation for Forced Labourers in the Czech Republic
Stephanie Zloch
Chapter 7. “We Cannot Allow the Words of Apology to Sound only on Gravestones”: Forced Labourer Compensation in the Ukraine
Julia Landau
Chapter 8. Compensation for Nazi Forced Labour in Post-Soviet Russia and Belarus
Tanja Penter
Index
About the author
Constantin Goschler is a Professor of Modern History at the Ruhr-University Bochum whose main research interests are transitional justice, security and surveillance studies, and biopolitics. His publications include a number of books on the history of compensation for Nazi victims, among them Robbery and Restitution: The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe (Berghahn 2007).
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