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It was the biggest asset stripping operation in history
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It was the biggest assetstripping operation in history

It was the biggest asset
stripping operation in history

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It was the biggest asset stripping operation in history.
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5 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:26:34
Uploaded
Mar 17, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Go2Films

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Could the perpetrators face their crimes? Could any compensation deliver justice to the survivors? Under the threat of violence, 6 years after the Holocaust, a group of German and Jewish leaders pushed for reparations as a step to...
- Whole families were completely annihilated. - Reckonings 00:05
- Whole families were completely annihilated.
And suddenly there was property, but there were no appropriators anymore. - Reckonings 00:05
And suddenly there was property, but there were no appropria...
Who is going to claim that property? - Reckonings 00:05
Who is going to claim that property?
It cannot happen that property will become legal property - Reckonings 00:10
It cannot happen that property will become legal property
You have murdered, and now you are going to appropriate - Reckonings 00:08
You have murdered, and now you are going to appropriate
That's morally unacceptable, in any culture of the world. - Reckonings 00:06
That's morally unacceptable, in any culture of the worl...
[Rachel] The idea was that the German compensation would assist - Reckonings 00:09
[Rachel] The idea was that the German compensation would ass...
But this did not constitute in itself an acknowledgement - Reckonings 00:11
But this did not constitute in itself an acknowledgement
After liberation, - Reckonings 00:15
After liberation,
My mother said, "Somebody must've come back." - Reckonings 00:08
My mother said, "Somebody must've come back."
- Because I didn't want anybody to think it's a payment - Reckonings 00:10
- Because I didn't want anybody to think it's a pa...
And I was just afraid that somebody - Reckonings 00:11
And I was just afraid that somebody
[Michael] Before negotiations could begin, - Reckonings 00:16
[Michael] Before negotiations could begin,
Goldmann's meeting without Adenauer in London would be the first time - Reckonings 00:11
Goldmann's meeting without Adenauer in London would be ...
Nahum Goldmann came through the delivery's entrance. - Reckonings 00:05
Nahum Goldmann came through the delivery's entrance.
So it was all very, very secret - Reckonings 00:11
So it was all very, very secret
Nahum Goldmann said a very unusual thing - Reckonings 00:07
Nahum Goldmann said a very unusual thing
He said, "Before you even answer, give me 15 minutes." - Reckonings 00:14
He said, "Before you even answer, give me 15 minutes.&q...
He said, "If there's to be any haggling," - Reckonings 00:17
He said, "If there's to be any haggling,"
And by moral dimension, he means that - Reckonings 00:12
And by moral dimension, he means that