Includes bibliographical references and index.

German reparations and the Jewish world : creating the Claims Conference / Ronald W. Zweig -- Who was (not) invited to Wassenaar? : the delegations to the 1952 German-Jewish reparations negotiations / Gideon Reuveni -- The international side of the story : why West Germany came to pay reparations to Israel in 1952 / Kathrin Bachleitner -- Wiedergutmachung as a claim to the rehabilitation of political subjectivity and social agency / Ido de Haan -- The factory that wiped out the past : Chorzów and the reparative imagination / Linda Kinstler -- 1952 as a turning point in the history of the restitution of property rights in Western Europe / Wouter Veraart -- The forgotten lessons of negotiated redress : Wassenaar, the struggle for reparations, and human rights / Luke Moffett -- Three generations, one Wiedergutmachung / Susan Slyomovics -- Holocaust reparations : scrutinizing "the model" in transitional justice / Nicole Immler -- Considering compensation for Palestinian refugees : Arab and international efforts in the 1950s / Michael Fischbach -- The history and current status of German reparations to Namibia / Henning Melber -- Holocaust redress : its effect on slave redress and post-conflict justice / Roy L. Brooks.

"This edited volume offers a new interpretation of the historically momentous 1952 Wassenaar negotiations between representatives of the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, and the Jewish Claims Conference to negotiate reparations, compensation, and restitution in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Wassenaar 1952 marked the first time that reparations were the subject of negotiations between representatives of victims and perpetrators following mass human rights violations and genocide. The reparations program that Germany established after the Holocaust eventually became a point of reference for many calling for reparations to deal with the aftermath of other atrocities - from colonialism to slavery - in contexts as diverse as Namibia, the United States, and beyond. Combining perspectives from history, anthropology, international relations, and transitional justice, this volume reassesses the course and global legacy of these negotiations. The book's holistic and nuanced intervention in the study of the politics of repair makes it essential reading for students of history, law, transitional justice, and political science interested in the complex topic of reparations"--