The Plunder of Jewish Property during the Holocaust

Abstract

Introduction: unmasking national myths: Europeans challenge their history / Avi Becker -- The inexplicable behaviour of states / Stuart E. Eizenstat -- Estimating Jewish wealth / Sidney Jay Zabludoff -- The Holocaust, "thefticide" and restitution: a legal perspective / Irwin Cotler -- Defrosting history: the restitution of Jewish property in Eastern Europe / Laurence Weinbaum -- A commentary on Europe's looted gold, 1938-45 / Arthur L. Smith, Jr. -- German assets in Switzerland at the end of the Second World War / Sidney Jay Zabludoff -- Why was Switzerland singled out? A case of belated justice / Avi Beker -- The great culture robbery: the plunder of Jewish-owned art / Hector Feliciano -- France and the burdens of Vichy / Shmuel Trigano -- Quiet collusion: Sweden's financial links to Nazi Germany / Sven Fredrik Hedin and Go¨ran Elgemyr -- "Ex-enemy Jews": the fate of the assets of Holocaust victims and survivors in Britain / Stephen Ward and Ian Locke -- The Norwegian moral and material statement: White paper no. 82 to the Storting / Norwegian Ministry of Justice -- Austria: the evasion of responsibility / Itamar Levine -- Franco's Spain: willing, unwanted ally of Nazi Germany / Cesar Vidal -- Portugal's double game: between the Nazis and the Allies / Antonio Luca -- The robbery of Dutch Jews and postwar restitution / Gerard Aalders -- Italy: aspects of the unbeautiful life / Furio Moroni -- The Vatican and the Shoah: unanswered questions of material complicity / Arieh Doobov -- Confiscation in Belgium: diamonds and other Jewish properties / Viviane Teitelbaum-Hirsch.