Theft-Murder: The Inadequacy of Reparations and Restitutions as a result of Anti-Semitism
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:10:51
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 13 pages (3588 words)
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 13 pages (3588 words)
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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