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Reckonings

We decided very early on,we're not going to ask for anything for loss of life

We decided very early on,
we're not going to ask for anything for loss of life

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We decided very early on, we're not going to ask for anything
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for loss of life.
Duration
7 seconds
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18
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:38
Uploaded
Mar 17, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
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...
It was too difficult for us to say - Reckonings 00:08
It was too difficult for us to say
Or you're worth more than somebody else who was killed. - Reckonings 00:05
Or you're worth more than somebody else who was killed.
[Michael] The most important basis for individual survivor claims against Germany - Reckonings 00:07
[Michael] The most important basis for individual survivor c...
- And there was a second claim, which was based on the value of the property - Reckonings 00:15
- And there was a second claim, which was based on the value...
- The Holocaust was not only a war against the Jewish people. - Reckonings 00:07
- The Holocaust was not only a war against the Jewish people...
It was the biggest asset stripping operation in history. - Reckonings 00:05
It was the biggest asset stripping operation in history.
- 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 ...