Imperfect justice : looted assets, slave labor, and the unfinished business of World War II / Stuart E. Eizenstat ; foreword by Elie Wiesel.
2003
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Author
Title
Imperfect justice : looted assets, slave labor, and the unfinished business of World War II / Stuart E. Eizenstat ; foreword by Elie Wiesel.
Published
New York : Public Affairs, 2003.
Call Number
D804.7.E26 E59 2003
ISBN
158648110X
9781586481100
1586482408
9781586482404
9781586481100
1586482408
9781586482404
Description
xi, 401 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50754811
Summary
Holding the post of US Ambassador to the EU, among others, during the Clinton Administration, Stuart Eizenstat was responsible for negotiating with the Swiss, German, French, and Austrian governments to gain reparations for the victims of WWII, while maintaining positive diplomatic relations. This volume comprises his personal account of his work, which ultimately secured settlements totaling $8 billion for the victims of the Nazis.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Eizenstat, Stuart. Imperfect justice. New York : Public Affairs, 2003 (OCoLC)606933706
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Elie Wiesel
Introduction: A Fifty-Year Wait for Justice
1
1.
Through the Valley of the Dry Bones
23
2.
Greta Beer and the Swiss Bank Affair
46
3.
Enter the Players
52
4.
Enter the Lawyers
75
5.
All That Glitters
90
6.
Kabuki Dance
115
7.
Scorpions in a Bottle
136
8.
Settlement
165
9.
Barbarians of Culture
187
10.
Remembering Dora-Mittelbau
205
11.
As Old as the Pyramids
229
12.
Ten Billion Marks
243
13.
Strange Ending
259
14.
Unser Wien
279
15.
Bridge over Troubled Water
293
16.
French Exception
315
Conclusion: A Final Accounting for World War II
339
Acknowledgments
357
Notes
365
Photo Credits
387
Index
389