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edited by Roy L. Brooks.26 cm."This anthology brings together essays, written by both internationally renowned and emerging scholars, and public documents concerning claims from around the world which seek redress for human injustice."--Preface.Pt. 1. Introduction. 1. The Age of Apology / Pt. 2. Nazi Persecution. 2. A Reparations Success Story? / 3. The German Third Reich and Its Victims: Nazi Ideology / 4. Memories of My Childhood in the Holocaust / 5. The Human "Guinea Pigs" of Ravensbruck / 6. Stranger in Exile / 7. Putative National Security Defense: Extracts from the Testimony of Nazi SS Group Leader Otto Ohlendorf. 8. German Compensation for National Socialist Crimes / 9. Romani Victims of the Holocaust and Swiss Complicity / 10. German Reparations: Institutionalized Insufficiency / Pt. 3. Comfort Women. 11. What Form Redress? / 12. The Jugun Ianfu System / 13. Comfort Women Narratives: Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women. 14. The Nanking Massacre / 15. Japan's Official Responses to Nanking. 16. The Comfort Women Redress Movement / 17. Japan's Official Responses to Reparations. 18. Japan's Settlement of the Post-World War II Reparations and Claims / 19. Reparations: A Legal Analysis / 20. Lipinski Resolution -- Pt. 4. Japanese Americans. 21. Japanese American Redress and the American Political Process: A Unique Achievement? / 22. The Internment of Americans of Japanese Ancestry / 23. Executive Order 9066: Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas. 24. Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. 25. Japanese American Narratives / 26. Relocation, Redress, and the Report: A Historical Appraisal / 27. Redress Achieved, 1983-1990 / 28. Institutions and Interest Groups: Understanding the Passage of the Japanese American Redress Bill / 29. Proclamation 4417: Confirming the Termination of the Executive Order Authorizing Japanese-American Internment. 30. Response to Criticisms of Monetary Redress / 31. Testimony of Representative Norman Y. Mineta. 32. German Americans, Italian Americans, and the Constitutionality of Reparations: Jacobs v. Barr. 33. The Case of the Japanese Peruvians. 34. Letters from John J. McCloy and Karl R. Bendetsen -- Pt. 5. Native Americans. 35. Wild Redress? / 36. Native American Reparations: Five Hundred Years and Counting / 37. The Killing of Big Snake, a Ponca Chief, October 31, 1879 / 38. The Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, December 29, 1890 / 39. How the Indians Are Victimized by Government Agents and Soldiers / 40. Forced Removal of the Winnebago Indians, Nebraska, October 3, 1865 / 41. Indian Claims for Reparations, Compensation, and Restitution in the United States Legal System / 42. The True Nature of Congress's Power over Indian Claims: An Essay on Venetie and the Uses of Silence in Federal Indian Law / 43. Repatriation Must Heal Old Wounds / 44. Office of the Governor, Pete Wilson, State of California, Press Release. 45. Statement of the Honorable Anthony R. Pico, Chairman, Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, Press Conference. 46. The Distribution of Wealth, Sovereignty, and Culture through Indian Gaming / Pt. 6. Slavery. 47. Not Even an Apology? / 48. The Legal Status of African Americans during the Colonial Period / 49. African Americans under the Antebellum Constitution /