In Conquest and Redemption, Gregg J. Rickman explains how the Nazis
stole the possessions of their Jewish victims and obtained the
cooperation of institutions across Europe in these crimes of
convenience. He also describes how those institutions are being
brought to justice, sixty years later, for their retention of their
ill-gotten gains. Rickman not only explains how the robbery was
accomplished, tracked, stalled, and then finally reversed, but also
clearly shows the ways in which robbery was inextricably connected
to the murder of the Jews. The Nazis took everything from
Jews--their families, their possessions, and even their names. As
with the murder of Jews, the Nazis' robbery was an organized,
institutionalized effort. Jews were isolated, robbed, and left
homeless, regarded as parasites in the Nazis' eyes, and thus fair
game. In short, the organized robbery of the Jews facilitated their
slaughter. How did the German people come to believe that it was
permissible to isolate, outlaw, rob, and murder Jews? A partial
explanation can be found in the Nazis' creation of a virtual
religion of German nationalism and homogeneity that delegitimized
Jews as a people and as individuals. This belief system was
expressed through a complex structure of religious rules,
practices, and institutions. While Nazi ideology was the guiding
principle, how that ideology was formed and how it was applied is
important to understand if one is to fully grasp the Holocaust.
Rickman painstakingly describes the structural composition and
motivation for the plundering of Jewish assets. The Holocaust will
always remain a memory of unequalled pain and suffering, but, as
Rickman shows, the return of stolen goods to their survivors is a
partial victory for the long aggrieved. Conquest and Redemption
will be of interest to students and scholars in the history of the
Holocaust and its aftermath.
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