Repressed, Remitted, Rejected

Dr. Karl Heinz Roth is a historian (Ph.D., University of Bremen) and physician (M.D., University of Hamburg). In 1986 he co-founded the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts and established its research and archives departments. He has published widely in articles and books on the histories of labour, business, economics, society and science.

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Preface to the English Edition

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Methodological and Historical Aspects of the Reparations Problem



Part I: The Price of Plunder



Chapter 1. Exploitation and Destruction: The Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)

Chapter 2. The Occupation and Plundering of Greece (1941–1944)

Chapter 3. Testing Grounds of Occupation Policy: Poland and Greece in Comparison with the Rest of Nazi-Occupied Europe



Part II: The Failure of the Allies



Chapter 4. Allied Reparation Policies: From Joint Plans to the Cold War

Chapter 5. Poland as Part of the Eastern Reparations Zone (1945–1953)

Chapter 6. Developments in the Western Reparations Zone (1945–1951): The Conceptual Guidelines of Britain and the United States



Part III: Divide et Impera



Chapter 7. The Reparations Policy of the West German Power Elites through to the End of the 1980s

Chapter 8. Greece on the Sidelines Once Again

Chapter 9. Interim Conclusions

Chapter 10. The Two-Plus-Four Treaty and The Exclusion of the Reparations Question

Chapter 11. Developments since the 1990s

Chater 12. Greece Comes Away Empty-Handed

Chapter 13. New Conflicts: The Controversy Surrounding German Reparations Debt since 2015, and the Problem of ‘Remembrance Culture’

Chapter 14. Guilt and Debt: The Extent of Germany's Reparations Debt and What Has Been Paid So Far



Chapter 15. Arguments in Favour of a Final Reparations Amendment to the Two-Plus-Four Treaty



Appendix: Notes and Links for Digital Documentation with Lists of Documents



Abbreviations

Sources and bibliography



Index