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February 4, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-bazyler-f04.htm

Suing Hitler's Willing Business Partners: American Justice and Holocaust Morality

(Jewish Political Studies Review) Michael J. Bazyler - The Holocaust restitution lawsuits, filed mostly as class actions in American courts in the latter half of the 1990s, yielded billions of dollars in settlements for Holocaust survivors and their heirs, as well as valuable historical data. This post-Holocaust restitution movement, while viewed as a success, nevertheless created troubling moral issues, such as whether the demand for financial restitution demeans the memory of the Holocaust, the fair distribution of the funds, the definition of Holocaust survivors, to what the funds should be allocated, the size of the attorney's payments, and the defense of European corporations accused of wrongful conduct by Jewish lawyers.

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