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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1990 5(3):247-259; doi:10.1093/hgs/5.3.247
© 1990 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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A VIEW OF US POLICY TOWARD JEWISH RESTITUTION1

ARTHUR L. SMITH, JR

California State University Los Angeles

In 1952, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer met with world Jewish leaders and representatives of the State of Israel to formalize a program of restitution to be paid to Jewish victims of Nazism. German researchers have traced the origins of the reparations agreement to the intentions of German state legislators to introduce a law on the subject even during the period of military occupation, before 1949. Jewish researchers have credited the sustained efforts of various Jewish organizations with bringing about a restitution program. This paper argues that the United States played a significant role in helping realize a restitution program. The available sources on this aspect of US–German relations in that period reveal a determined course by the United States to push the emergent West German state toward a resolution of the Jewish restitution problem.


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