Bürokratische Bewältigung: Entschädigung für nationalsozialistisch Verfolgte im Regierungsbezirk Münster, Julia Volmer-Naumann (Essen: Klartext, 2012), 507 pp., illus., statistical charts, hardcover €42.00

“The majority of the claimants seek through their compensation claim and through appeals more than material compensation. The majority of the claimants and appellants have the need to see it [legally] established that they had suffered an injustice. For a large number of the claimants the moral aspe...

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Main Author: Dean, Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2013
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 508-510
Review of:Bürokratische Bewältigung (Essen : Klartext-Verl., 2012) (Dean, Martin)
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Summary:“The majority of the claimants seek through their compensation claim and through appeals more than material compensation. The majority of the claimants and appellants have the need to see it [legally] established that they had suffered an injustice. For a large number of the claimants the moral aspect of the case is more important than the payment of sums of money.”, The selection of this quotation from an American compensation attorney, Frederic Alberti, reflects Julia Volmer-Naumann's effort in her recently published doctoral thesis to go beyond the statistics of more than 12,000 case files in order to capture what was actually transpiring beneath the bureaucracy and behind the legal cases.
ISSN:1476-7937
Contains:Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dct043