Repressed, Remitted, Rejected

German Reparations Debts to Poland and Greece
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-257-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 790 g

Since unification, the Federal Republic of Germany has carried out vaunted efforts to make amends for the crimes of the Third Reich. Yet it remains the case that the demands for restitution by many countries that were occupied during the Second World War are unresolved, and recent demands from Greece and Poland have only reignited old debates. This book reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Greece and gives a thorough accounting of these debates. Working from the perspective of international law, it deepens the scholarly discourse around the issue, clarifying the ‘never-ending story’ of German reparations policy and making a principled call for further action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roth, Karl Heinz

Roth, Dr. Karl Heinz

Rübner, Hartmut

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of tables

Preface to the English Edition

Acknowledgements

Part I: Karl Heinz Roth

Introduction: Methodological and Historical Aspects of the Reparations Problem

The Price of Plunder

Chapter 1. Exploitation and Destruction: The Occupation of Poland (1939-1945)

Chapter 2. The Occupation and Plundering of Greece, 1941-1944

Chapter 3. Testing Grounds of Occupation Policy: Poland and Greece in Comparison with the Rest of Nazi-Occupied Europe

The Failure of the Allies

Chapter 4. Allied Reparation Policies: From Joint Plans to the Cold War

Chapter 5. Poland as Part of the Eastern Reparations Zone (1945-1953)

Chapter 6. Developments in the Western Reparations Zone (1945-1951)

Divide et Impera

Chapter 7. The Reparations Policy of the West-German Power Elites through to the End of the 1980s

Chapter 8. Greece on the Sidelines Once Again

Chapter 9. Interim Conclusions

Chapter 10. The Two-Plus-Four Treaty and The Exclusion of the Reparations Question

Chapter 11. Developments since the 1990s

Chater 12. Greece Comes Away Empty-handed

Chapter 13. New Conflicts: The Controversy Surrounding German Reparations Debt in Greece and Poland Since 2015 and the Problem of ‘Remembrance Culture’

Chapter 14. Guilt and Debts

The Extent of Germany’s Reparations Debt to Greece and What has been Paid so Far

Chapter 15. Arguments in Favour of a Final Reparations Amendment to the Two-Plus-Four Treaty

Part II: Harmut Rübner

Notes and Links for the Digital Documentation

Part III: Appendix

Abbreviations

List of Documents

Sources and bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Rübner, Hartmut
Hartmut Rübner is a political scientist and Research Fellow for the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. He has written books on the social and economic history of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship and on the New Left.

Roth, Dr. Karl Heinz
Dr. Karl Heinz Roth is a historian (Ph.D., University of Bremen) and physician (M.D., University of Hamburg). In 1986 he co-founded the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts and established its research and archives departments. He has published widely in articles and books on the histories of labour, business, economics, society and science.

Dr. Karl Heinz Roth is a historian (Ph.D., University of Bremen) and physician (M.D., University of Hamburg). In 1986 he co-founded the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts and established its research and archives departments. He has published widely in articles and books on the histories of labour, business, economics, society and science.