Reparation and Reconciliation

The vanquished must pay reparations. That custom has a long tradition. Hence, Germany paid after World War II – to Israel (which didn’t exist during the war), and to the survivors among her victims. Yet, the other countries that had been invaded by Germany didn’t see a penny. Well, they merely plundered and sliced and diced Germany as such… Papers in this section deal with the reparations paid by Germany, and that country’s attempt at reconciliation with its former enemies.

by Ruth Gay. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, 347 pp. Perhaps unintentionally, the title of this fascinating study of the infamous Displaced-Persons camps in postwar Germany is very generous to Germans. It suggests that, in some act of contrition, those Germans who survived World War II willingly opened their …

The passions and propaganda of wartime normally diminish with the passage of time. A striking exception is the Holocaust campaign, which seems to grow more pervasive and intense as the years go by. Certainly the most lucrative expression of this seemingly endless campaign has been West Germanys massive and historically …

This paper is an examination of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft (SL), a West German organization of Sudeten Germans expelled by Czechoslovakia from their homeland after World War II. This essay will place particular emphasis on the political activities of the SL. The intention of the essay is to enlighten the reader …

Marshall Plan Benefits for West Germany Within the framework of the so-called Marshall Plan, a credit(!) of approximately 1.4 billion US Dollars (6.4 billion DM) was given to West Germany for the years 1949 to 1952. Under the terms of the London Debt Agreement of February 1953, this credit(!) was …

Ingrid Rimland Zündel re-counts an experience from her early days as a revisionist as an interviewee on a television program called The Learning Channel. “My stunningly beautiful anchor leaned forward, pulled her face into the ugliest visage of hatred I have ever had the displeasure to see, and literally hissed …

Since 1951 Germany has paid more than 102 billion marks, about $61.8 billion at 1998 exchange rates, in federal government reparation payments to Israel and Third Reich victims. In addition, Germans have paid out billions in private and other public funds, including about 75 million marks ($49 million) by German …

The public discussion about the compensation of former concentration camp inmates and forced laborers is not only characterized by covering up facts and raising legends and horror stories to reality. It is far more marked by a partiality and one-sidedness which can hardly be surpassed. As is customary, it is …

Currently there are renewed demands, largely by some ethnic groups in the United States, to get the Federal Republic of Germany's private sector to pay compensation to an unknown number of individuals who were forced into labor during World War Two. The current German offer of three and a half …

One of the themes that has emerged in the recent convulsion of reparations demands is that Jewish Holocaust victims should be compensated for all the monies and properties lost as a result of Nazi tyranny. In a sense, this seems only just, because if a person has their belongings stolen …

Germany has been, since World War II, an occupied nation. No peace treaty has ever been signed, occupying armies still remain there—and Germany continues to function under a foreign constitution, prepared by the victors of WW2.[1] It owns a massive amount of gold, three and a half thousand tons …

Riders of the Juggernaut are exalted by right of their berths aboard it—they claim, and receive, whether graciously or haughtily, the adulation of the masses among whom the Juggernaut passes. The more-fervent among the throng find victims among their number to throw in its path by way of sacrifice that …

Il 28 maggio, un dispaccio dell’ Agenzia telegrafica ebrea, apparso sul quotidiano ebreo "Forward", annunciava (traduzione riassuntiva): http://forward.com/articles/177486/germany-agrees-to-pay-b-for-home-care-for-holoca La Germania s’impegna a versare 1 miliardo di dollari per le cure a domicilio dei sopravvissuti all’Olocausto. In seguito alle negoziazioni con la Claims Conference (Conferenza delle riparazioni), la Germania incrementa il finanziamento (…) …

Da un corrispondente tedesco, che ringraziamo, riceviamo la traduzione dell'ultima intervista dello SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke.  Qui la versione francese,  QUI l'originale in Italiano. Olodogma   Interview mit Erich Priebke Ende Juli 2013 (Original in italienischer Sprache) F – Herr Priebke, vor einigen Jahren haben Sie ausgesagt, daß Sie Ihre Vergangenheit nicht verleugnen. Denken Sie heute, …

A Time to Forget?

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. (COJMCAG Inc.) commissioned a study of the public's "Awareness of the Holocaust,” timed to be released on Holocaust Remembrance Day. COJMCAG Inc. claims that there is a "significant lack of Holocaust knowledge in the United States."