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Less Than Slaves

Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation
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As a U.S. war crimes investigator during World War II, Benjamin B. Ferencz participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. Returning to Germany after the war to help bring perpetrators of war crimes to justice, he remained to direct restitution programs for Nazi victims. In Less Than Slaves Ferencz describes the painstaking efforts that were made to persuade German industrialists such as I. G. Farben, Krupp, AEG, Rheinmetall, and Daimler-Benz to compensate camp inmates exploited as forced laborers. The meagre outcome of these efforts are detailed in searing pages that detail the difficulties confronted by Ferencz and his dedicated colleagues. This engrossing narrative is a vital resource for all who are concerned with the moral, legal, and practical implications of the recent explosive outburst of claims for compensation from victims of persecution throughout the world. This absorbing firsthand account first published in 1979, now returns to print with the author's penetrating evaluation of its significance and current relevance.
Benjamin B. Ferencz was the prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial of the SS Einsatzgruppen. Now in his eighties, Ferencz remains active as a teacher, lecturer, and author of books on international law and articles dealing with the creation of an international criminal court.
Preliminary Table of Contents: Preface Foreword by Telford Taylor Preface Acknowledgments Map 1. The Final Solution-A Brief Reminder 2. Auschwitz Survivors v. I.G. Farben 3. Accounting with Krupp 4. The Electrical Companies See the Light 5. The Cannons of rheinmetall 6. The Shark Who Got Away 7. A Medley of Disappointments 8. The Last Word Appendixes Notes Index
Returns to print a classic work about the question of reparations to survivors of forced labour in Nazi concentration camps
"[This] valuable book is a striking reminder of the larger purposes of law in civilized societies. At the same time it affords a depressing insight into the deficiencies and inadequacies of the supposed de-nazification of the West German legal system and of section of German society." --Times Literary Supplement "This short book is of extreme importance... [It] is a book to ponder." --Martin Gilbert, The New York Times "Here is the first comprehensive account of the complicity of the major German industrial firms in crimes against humanity through their exploitation of Jewish slave labor during the Hitler era." --Lucy Dawidowicz
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