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Project “The post-Holocaust Development of Legal Remedies as a Learning Process (Post-Holocaust Remedies)”

For the first time, a research project at the Faculty of Law of Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen is conducting research with international cooperation partners on the development and effects of compensation law related to the Holocaust and is organizing an international summer school starting in August 2023, with the aim of setting up an academic curriculum, along with other activities.

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Press Release: "Post-Holocaust Remedies" – Compensation law after the Holocaust and its Development

Die juristische Aufarbeitung der Folgen der durch die Nationalsozialisten begangenen Verbrechen wirft zahlreiche Fragen auf. Welche Lehren lassen sich nach den Schrecken des Holocaust aus den bisherigen entschädigungsrechtlichen Maßnahmen ziehen? Welche Instrumente eignen sich zur rechtlichen Wiedergutmachung? Wie kann die Perspektive der Opfer von Gräueltaten besser berücksichtig werden? ...

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70 Years of German Compensation Law - Germany’s Responsibility for Victims of WWII and the Holocaust

On September 15th, 2022, the German government commemorated 70 years of compensation law for victims of WWII and the Holocaust. It began in December 1951, when then German Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made a now-famous speech about the moral obligation of the young republic towards crime ...

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