Confronting the perpetrators : a history of the Claims Conference / Marilyn Henry ; foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-248) and index.

Confronting the perpetrators : Jewish material claims for Nazi atrocities -- Establishing the legal right to compensation : West German indemnification and restitution legislation -- From legal right to humanitarian aid : the Claims Conference Hardship Fund -- From East Berlin to Bonn : recovering Jewish assets from the German Democratic Republic -- "Would Anne Frank have been eligible?" : post-unification compensation -- The legacy of the dead : recovering heirless Jewish properties in the Former East Germany -- Surviving Vernichtung durch Arbeit : compensation for slave labour -- Confronting "first victim" : Jewish claims against Austria -- Sacred spending : the Claims Conference's institutional allocations -- The Claims Conference and fifty years of the Luxembourg Agreements.