Theft-Murder: The Inadequacy of Reparations and Restitutions as a result of Anti-Semitism
Title: Theft-Murder:
The Inadequacy of Reparations and Restitutions as a result of Anti-Semitism
Category: /History/War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 3588 | Pages: 13 (approximately 235 words/page)
Theft-Murder:
The Inadequacy of Reparations and Restitutions as a result of Anti-Semitism
Category: /History/War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 3588 | Pages: 13 (approximately 235 words/page)
At a conference regarding Holocaust-era assets, Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Prize Laureate and distinguished writer, quoted the First Book of Kings, "You have committed murder and now you wish to inherit the victim's fortune as well" (Authers XII). He was clearly pointing to the modern example of this type of theft-murder. Wiesel described analogous instances of industries and governments taking the lives of the Jews and then their possessions. The Nazi government perpetrated the largest
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