Imperfect Justice; Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II
New York: Public Affairs, 2003. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. xi, 401, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Some creasing to top edge front DJ. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Bookplate signed by the author. Stuart Elliott "Stu" Eizenstat (born January 15, 1943) is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as the United States Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996 and as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. For many years, he has served as a partner and Senior Counsel at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington & Burling and as a senior strategist at APCO Worldwide. From 1977 to 1981, he was President Jimmy Carter’s Chief Domestic Policy Adviser, and Executive Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff. He was Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs (1997–1999), and also served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the International Trade Administration (ITA) from 1996 to 1997. Derived from a Kirkus review: A former official in the Clinton administration chronicles the struggle to identify and retrieve Holocaust victims’ financial assets and to determine how to compensate those the Nazis displaced, robbed, and used as slave labor. After a brief survey of the situation, the author launches into a lengthy account of all the negotiations, betrayals, surprises, personalities, venues, complications, and compromises that the settlements required. Eizenstat worked on several recovery efforts. The first was to extract from the Swiss banking industry a full accounting of their reluctance to locate and return assets of Jewish depositors. Eizenstat worked as well to locate stolen personal property. Then he became involved in the negotiations to compensate those forced into slave labor, which resulted in the establishment of a fund of ten billion Deutschmarks. He went after the Austrians and the French. Both cooperated and contributed large sums of money to settle. A compelling narrative of an important story. Condition: Very good / very good.
Keywords: Holocaust, WWII, Forced Labor, Confiscations, Jewish Property, Gold, Drai Commission, Mel Weiss, Edgar Bronfman, Claims Conference, Edward Fagan, Michael Hausfeld, Israel Singer, Robert Swift, Roger Witten
ISBN: 158648110X
[Book #56327]
Price: $60.00