Imperfect Justice : Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II

by Eizenstat, Stuart E.

• ISBN13: 9781586481100
• ISBN10: 158648110X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

The U.S. official who spearheaded the fight to reclaim the stolen and confiscated assets of Holocaust survivors and other victims of World War II tells the inside story of that fight and how it was won.

Author Biography

Stuart E. Eizenstat served as the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Under Secretary of Commerce, Under Secretary of State, and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton Administration, from 1993 to 2001. While carrying the burdens of these senior positions, he had a dual role leading the Clinton Administration's efforts on Holocaust-related issues. He received the highest awards from the Departments of State and Treasury for his service. An honors graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and of Harvard Law School, he was also chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. He is currently the head of international trade and finance at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and serves on the boards of numerous corporate, academic, religious, and public policy institutions. He is married to Frances Eizenstat and they have two married sons, Jay and Brian, and four grandchildren

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction: A Fifty-Year Wait for Justice	p. 1
Through the Valley of the Dry Bones	p. 23
Greta Beer and the Swiss Bank Affair	p. 46
Enter the Players	p. 52
Enter the Lawyers	p. 75
All That Glitters	p. 90
Kabuki Dance	p. 115
Scorpions in a Bottle	p. 136
The Settlement	p. 165
The Barbarians of Culture	p. 187
Remembering Dora-Mittelbau	p. 205
As Old as the Pyramids	p. 229
Ten Billion Marks	p. 243
A Strange Ending	p. 259
Unser Wien	p. 279
Bridge over Troubled Water	p. 293
The French Exception	p. 315
Conclusion: A Final Accounting for World War II	p. 339
Acknowledgments	p. 357
Notes	p. 365
Photo Credits	p. 387
Index	p. 389
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