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How the Jewish Community Defeated the Banks and Stock Exchange in the 2000 Dutch Restitution Negotiations
April 28, 2010 |
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld
In the mid-1990s there was a sudden renewed public interest in the issue of looted Jewish possessions during the war and their very partial restitution afterward. In the Netherlands, public interest in restitution issues gradually reemerged after several decades of almost total silence. In the late 1990s, public inquiries focused on the government, banks, insurers, and the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange was controlled by the major Dut