(Jewish Political Studies Review) Nathan Durst- The German compensation laws (Wiedergutmachung) were discriminatory in nature. This was partly based on the lack of knowledge of the long-term after-effects of specific trauma, but even more so because of the unwillingness of German physicians to understand and accept the harm the Holocaust inflicted upon the survivors. The implementation of the measures taken could have been done much more effectively and less harmfully, more humanely and with more respect toward the Holocaust survivors.
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