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　　In the second halfofthe 1990s, Stuart Eizenstat had perhaps the most controversial assignment of any U.S. foreign policy official in Europe. His mission had nothing to do with Russia,the Middle East, Yugoslavia, or any of the other hotspots of the day. Rather, Eizenstat's mission was to provide justice--albeit belated and imperfect justice--for the victims of World War II,while maintaining positive diplomatic relations with the nations being asked to pay.

Imperfect Justice is Stuart Eizenstat's personal account of how the Holocaust became a political and diplomatic battleground fifty years after the war's end,as the issues of dormant bank accounts,slave labor,confiscated property,looted art,and unpaid insurance policies convulsed Europe and America.His story is not one of easy successes or an idyllic view of justice.Rather it is a revealing chronicle of high-stakes negotiations involving heads of European governments,played out on an international stage in an emotionally charged atmosphere,with a subtext of crimes against humanity and billions of dollars on the table.

Eizenstat recounts the often heated negotiations with the Swiss,the French,the Germans,the French,the Austrians,and various Jewish organizations,showing how moral and legal issues shunted aside for so long,exposed wounds that had never healed and conflicts that had never been properly resolved.Each country responded in its own way：Switzerland fought the disclosures about its past and deeply resented the outside pressure it faced;Germany accepted that it was once again called upon to account for its wartime sins,this time for those committed by private industry;Austria was torn seeing itself as both victim and collaborator with Hitler;and France courageously accepted national responsibility for the Vichy regime.And on the other side of the table were a remarkable cast of characters:class-action lawyers,some of whom were altruistic while others were as interested in their own press clippings as in serving the needs of the survivors they represented;Jewish organizations that were at each other's throats over who best represented the victims in their quest for justice;politicians with their own agendas and aambitions,including New York's colrful Senator Alfonse D'Amato,who turned the issue into his own personal crusad;and the President of the United States,Bill Clinton.

After six years of effort,Eizenstat and his team secured settlements totaling$8 billion for the victims of the Nazis,Jews and non-Jews alike,from some of the most powerful firms in Europe;they returned assets to their rightful owners;and they helped the countries of Europe face their past.Eizenstat's work has also laid the groundwork for resolving future disputes arising from man's inhumanity to man,proving that it is possible to bring justice,even imperfect justice,to an unjust world.

作者简介：

STUARTE.EIZENSTAT,served as the U.S.Ambassador to the European Union,Under Secretary of Commerce,Under Secretary of State,and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton Administration,from1993 to 2001.While carrying the burdens of these senior positions,he had a dual role leading the Clinton Administration's efforts on Holocaust-related isues.He received the highest awards from the Departments of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and of Harvard Law School,he was also chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.He is currently the head of international trade and finance at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington,D.C.,and serves on the boards of numerous corporate,academic,religious,and public policy institutions.He is married to Frances Eizenstat and they have two married sons,Jay and Brian,and four grand children.

FOREWORD BY ELIE WIESEL

Introduction:A Fifty-Year Wait for Justice

1 Through the Valley of the Dry Bones

2 Greta Beer and the Swiss Bank Affair

3 Enter the Players

4 Enter the Lawyers

5 All That Glitters

6 Kabuki Dance

7 Scorpions in a Bottle

8 The Settlement

9 The Barbarians of Culture

10 Remembering Dora-Mittelbau

11 As Old as the Pyramids

12 Ten Billion Marks

13 A Strange Ending

14 Unser Wien

15 Bridge over Troubled Water

16 The French Exception

Conclusion:A Final Accounting for World WarⅡ

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

PHOTO CREDITS

INDEX

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