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Episode 1: A question of property – between theft and law
The first episode addresses the question what belongs to whom after the fall of a terrorist regime, meaning why the restitution of houses and other valuable assets to those who suffered National Socialist persecution was essential to turn a dictatorship into a constitutional democracy. Restitution of property in this dimension had been unprecedented in history and raised a number of problems and hurdles.
In order to find answers, we will open files from the Federal Archives and we will ask the historian Jürgen Lillteicher about the beginnings of German Wiedergutmachung. The lawyer Benjamin Lahusen will open the doors to the courtrooms of those days and the provenance researchers Susanne Kiel and Kathrin Kleibl will tell us what happened with the removal goods of emigrating victims that were confiscated in German harbours.
About the events and people
Commented cabinet minutes about the cabinet meeting of December 21, 1949 in the online edition „Die Kabinettsprotokolle der Bundesregierung“: Link
Note by the Federal Minister of Justice, Thomas Dehler, on the sixth item of the agenda in the cabinet meeting of December 21, 1949, December 21, 1949 (BArch, B 141/407, pp. 19): PDF
Letter by the Federal Minister of Justice, Thomas Dehler, to the State Secretary of the Interior in the Federal Chancellery, Mai 1, 1950 (BArch, B 141/408, pp. 19–22): PDF
Informationen zur Familie Kloppstock in der Lost-Lift-Datenbank: Link
Links
Literature on the topic
More information about the podcast episode: https://www.archivportal-d.de/content/themenportale/wiedergutmachung/podcast?lang=en
Presented by: Nora Hespers, edited by: Lukas Fleischmann, Jörn Petrick, Ralph Würschinger and Mirjam Sprau. Script and production: Escucha - Kultur fürs Ohr. Cover: Kreativagentur Atelier Hauer+Dörfler GmbH. Cover picture: Applicant to the URO (© bpk) | Federal Archives
The podcast “The German Wiedergutmachung” is a production for the online collection “Wiedergutmachung nationalsozialistischen Unrechts” - the online platform for compensation files, conceived and commissioned by the Federal Archives. Escucha - Kultur fürs Ohr was responsible for the realization. Funding was provided by the Federal Ministry of Finance.
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By BundesarchivThe first episode addresses the question what belongs to whom after the fall of a terrorist regime, meaning why the restitution of houses and other valuable assets to those who suffered National Socialist persecution was essential to turn a dictatorship into a constitutional democracy. Restitution of property in this dimension had been unprecedented in history and raised a number of problems and hurdles.
In order to find answers, we will open files from the Federal Archives and we will ask the historian Jürgen Lillteicher about the beginnings of German Wiedergutmachung. The lawyer Benjamin Lahusen will open the doors to the courtrooms of those days and the provenance researchers Susanne Kiel and Kathrin Kleibl will tell us what happened with the removal goods of emigrating victims that were confiscated in German harbours.
About the events and people
Commented cabinet minutes about the cabinet meeting of December 21, 1949 in the online edition „Die Kabinettsprotokolle der Bundesregierung“: Link
Note by the Federal Minister of Justice, Thomas Dehler, on the sixth item of the agenda in the cabinet meeting of December 21, 1949, December 21, 1949 (BArch, B 141/407, pp. 19): PDF
Letter by the Federal Minister of Justice, Thomas Dehler, to the State Secretary of the Interior in the Federal Chancellery, Mai 1, 1950 (BArch, B 141/408, pp. 19–22): PDF
Informationen zur Familie Kloppstock in der Lost-Lift-Datenbank: Link
Links
Literature on the topic
More information about the podcast episode: https://www.archivportal-d.de/content/themenportale/wiedergutmachung/podcast?lang=en
Presented by: Nora Hespers, edited by: Lukas Fleischmann, Jörn Petrick, Ralph Würschinger and Mirjam Sprau. Script and production: Escucha - Kultur fürs Ohr. Cover: Kreativagentur Atelier Hauer+Dörfler GmbH. Cover picture: Applicant to the URO (© bpk) | Federal Archives
The podcast “The German Wiedergutmachung” is a production for the online collection “Wiedergutmachung nationalsozialistischen Unrechts” - the online platform for compensation files, conceived and commissioned by the Federal Archives. Escucha - Kultur fürs Ohr was responsible for the realization. Funding was provided by the Federal Ministry of Finance.