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Less than slaves : Jewish forced labor and the quest for compensation / Benjamin B. Ferencz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferencz, Benjamin B., 1920-2023
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Europe, Eastern.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Slave labor--Europe, Eastern.
- Slave labor.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations.
- Reparations for historical injustices.
- World War, 1939-1945--Claims.
- Claims.
- War reparations.
- Eastern Europe.
- Genre:
- Claims.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 249 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Museum, [2002]
- Summary:
- In Less Than Slaves Benjamin B. Ferencz describes the painstaking efforts that were made to persuade German industrialists such as I.G. Farben, Krupp, AEG, Rheinmetall, and Daimler-Benz to compensate camp inmates who were exploited as forced laborers. The meager outcome of these efforts emerges from searing pages that detail the difficulties confronted by Ferencz and his dedicated colleagues. This engrossing narrative is a vital resource for all who are concerned with the moral, legal, and practical implications of the recent explosive outburst of claims for reparations from victims of persecution throughout the world. First published in 1979, Ferencz's penetrating firsthand account returns to print with the author's evaluation of its historical significance and current relevance.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Telford Taylor
- The Final Solution-A Brief Reminder
- Auschwitz Survivors v. I.G. Farben
- Accounting with Krupp
- The Electrical Companies See the Light
- The Cannons of Rheinmetall
- The Shark Who Got Away
- A Medley of Disappointments
- The Last Word.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Harvard University Press, 1979.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-241) and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Holocaust, Winner, 1980
- ISBN:
- 0253341051
- 9780253341051
- 0253215307
- 9780253215307
- OCLC:
- 48965173
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