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How Swiss Banks and German Companies Came to Terms with the Wrenching Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II: A Defense Perspective
Ist Teil von
Holocaust Restitution, 2005, p.80
Ort / Verlag
NYU Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In 1996, long after World War II ended in Europe, the demands of Holocaust victims and others for compensation from Swiss and German companies began to receive sustained attention in the United States and abroad. Litigation and complex international negotiations ensued. This chapter offers a general perspective on how these difficult and emotional issues came to be resolved, as this resolution was viewed by a defense counsel who was intimately involved with the Swiss bank settlement and German Nazi-era negotiations and related litigation.
Switzerland, of course, was not a belligerent during World War II; it was a neutral. Nevertheless, probing