Theft-Murder: The Inadequacy of Reparations and Restitutions as a result of Anti-Semitism

Title: Theft-Murder: The Inadequacy of Reparations and Restitutions as a result of Anti-Semitism
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Theft-Murder: The Inadequacy of Reparations and Restitutions as a result of Anti-Semitism

At a conference regarding Holocaust-era assets, Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Prize Laureate and distinguished writer, quoted the First Book of Kings, "You have committed murder and now you wish to inherit the victim's fortune as well" (Authers XII). He was clearly pointing to the modern example of this type of theft-murder. Wiesel described analogous instances of industries and governments taking the lives of the Jews and then their possessions. The Nazi government perpetrated the largest …showed first 75 words of 3769 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 3769 total…www.swissbankclaims.com/index.asp> "International List of Current Activities Regarding Holocaust-Era Assets, Including Historical Commissions, and Forced and Slave Labor." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 29 Sept. 2003. <http://www.ushmm.org/assets/> Kuklick, Bruce. American Policy and the Division of Germany: The Clash with Russia Over Reparations. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1972. Levin, Itimar. The Last Deposit: Swiss Banks and Holocaust Victims' Accounts. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999.

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