From Paris To London: The Legal History of European Reparation Claims: 1946-1953

The main thesis of this article is that failures in the inter-state reparations processes led to the rise of the individual's agency in the international sphere. This article's second thesis is that the failure of these first-stage collective efforts played a significant role in the shift...

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Published inBerkeley journal of international law Vol. 31; no. 2; p. 323
Main Author Buxbaum, Richard M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berkeley University of California Press Books Division 01.07.2013
Subjects
European history
International agreements
Reparations
Treaties
Europe
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Summary:The main thesis of this article is that failures in the inter-state reparations processes led to the rise of the individual's agency in the international sphere. This article's second thesis is that the failure of these first-stage collective efforts played a significant role in the shift towards bilateral treaties that could compensate in part for that failure. Woven into that thesis, at least indirectly, is another line of inquiry; namely, into the fate of efforts of those Allied Powers that had been occupied by Germany during the war to obtain reparations. Part I discusses the allocation episode following the Potsdam Agreement. Part II focuses on the slow erosion of early hopes among those Allies who had been under German occupation for a meaningful transfer of monetary and physical assets under the reparations arrangements that evolved.
ISSN:1085-5718