Redefining Reparations

Wassenaar 1952 and the Global Politics of Repair
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-45463-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Mass Violence in Modern History

This edited volume offers a new interpretation of the historically momentous 1952 Wassenaar negotiations between representatives of the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, and the Jewish Claims Conference to negotiate reparations, compensation, and restitution in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Wassenaar 1952 marked the first time that reparations were the subject of negotiations between representatives of victims and perpetrators following mass human rights violations and genocide. The reparations program that Germany established after the Holocaust eventually became a point of reference for many calling for reparations to deal with the aftermath of other atrocities – from colonialism to slavery – in contexts as diverse as Namibia, the United States, and beyond. Combining perspectives from history, anthropology, international relations, and transitional justice, this volume reassesses the course and global legacy of these negotiations.

The book’s holistic and nuanced intervention in the study of the politics of repair makes it essential reading for students of history, law, transitional justice, and political science interested in the complex topic of reparations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Vita, Lorena

Goschler, Constantin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Wassenaar, 1952: Redefining Reparations  Part I: Actors and Agency  1. German Reparations and the Jewish World: Creating the Claims Conference  2. Who Was (Not) Invited to Wassenaar?: The Delegations to the 1952 German-Jewish Reparations Negotiations  3. The International Side of the Story: Why West Germany Came to Pay Reparations to Israel in 1952  4. Wiedergutmachung as a Claim to the Rehabilitation of Political Subjectivity and Social Agency  Part II: Meanings and Practices  5. The Factory That Wiped Out the Past: Chorzów and the Reparative Imagination  6. 1952 as a Turning Point in the History of the Restitution of Property Rights in Western Europe  7. The Forgotten Lessons of Negotiated Redress: Wassenaar, the Struggle for Reparations, and Human Rights  8. Three Generations, One Wiedergutmachung  Part III: Echoes and Resonances  9. Holocaust Reparations: Scrutinizing “the Model” in Transitional Justice  10. Considering Compensation for Palestinian Refugees: Arab and International Efforts in the 1950s  11. The History and Current Status of German Reparations to Namibia  12. Holocaust Redress: Its Effect on Slave Redress and Post-Conflict Justice

Über Autor(innen)

Lorena De Vita is Associate Professor of International Relations in Historical Perspective at Utrecht University, where she leads the Wording Repair research project, funded by the Dutch National Research Council (NWO) and the Alfred Landecker Foundation Lecturer Programme. De Vita is the author of Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations 1949–69 (2020).

Constantin Goschler is Professor of Modern History at the Ruhr University Bochum. His publications include Schuld und Schulden: Die Politik der Wiedergutmachung für NS-Verfolgte seit 1945 (2008) and Compensation in Practice: The Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" and the Legacy of Forced Labour during the Third Reich (ed.) (2017).