Degradation Rituals in German Holocaust Compensation
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
Year: 2014

On February 4, 1945, in Yalta, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to redesign Europe's post-World War II borders, shifting Poland west. This resulted in the forced relocation of millions of German, Polish, and Ukrainian war survivors (Snyder 2003; Bliss-Lane [1948] 1965). Sixty-three years later, on October 10, 2008, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg dismissed the lawsuit filed by German expellees known as the Prussian Trust (Preußische Treuhand) against the Republic of Poland f