The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0066212642 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Disappointing Charles M. Wyzanski This topic is fascinating but deserves a thorough historical and analytical treatment, not a series of often disjointed anecdotes and descriptions of personalities of the moment. I expected more from reporters of the Financial Times.. An epic account of an epic struggle The publisher says "John Authers and Richard Wolffe offer a spellbinding investigative account" of the international struggle to retrieve some of the debts owed to Holocaust victims for more than half a century by bankers, insurers and industrial executives. I rarely agree with a publisher's endorsement of abook but in the case of "The Victim"s Fortune" I can only agree with the judgement.The authors meticulously give their sou. A Customer said good read which brings 'boring' negotiations to life. The Victim's Fortune is a good read and it offers interesting insights into the compensation talks saga. It is written in the style of `barbarians at the gate,' i.e. it tells a story by following the people involved and the personal axes they have to grind.At the time, I followed the news of the Swiss banks and German companies with half an eye, dismissing it as (tedious) legal blackmail. But this book, which fell into my lap b
Many Europeans dismissed the demands as blackmail.The Victim's Fortune tells the remarkable tale of the Americans who cajoled, bullied, and squabbled their way across the world. The demands for billions of dollars in restitution triggered bitter disputes over who should pay the survivors and who should receive the cash. Armed with class-action lawsuits and threats of economic sanctions, the disparate band of American lawyers, politicians, and Jewish groups fought fire with fire against some of the world's most powerful corporations and governments.But what began as a moral crusade quickly degenerated into a bare-knuckled global battle that opened up painful debates about justice and how to achieve it. An extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of money, justice, and the fallout that remains from the twentieth century's worst crime.In April 1996 a billionaire businessman pulled aside Hillary Rodham Clinton at a political fund-raiser in his Manhat
When it did, it was not done out of innate goodness on, say, the part of the banks of Switzerland, which had held billions of dollars deposited there by men and women who would not live to claim them--even though, financial journalists Authers and Wolffe are quick to remark, those banks were staffed by good and well-intentioned people. Their book is a fascinating case study in justice served--if, some critics continue to charge, too little and too late. --Gregory McNamee. We can only take a modicum of justice--a modicum of attempting to somehow right wrongs in a small way for those who are still alive." S