RT Article
T1 Patterned payments: explaining victim group variation in West German reparations policy
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 14
IS 2
SP 381
OP 400
A1 Greenstein, Claire
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1845295153
AB Why, once governments decide to pay reparations, do they fulfill their reparations promises to some groups and not to others? I argue that the organizational capacity of a victim group helps explain which groups receive reparations. I develop this argument through an in-depth case study of the postwar experience of German Sinti and Roma, supported by archival and interview data. I show that organized victim groups received reparations from the West German government in the 1950s, while Romani Germans, who did not organize until the late 1970s, were largely and deliberately excluded from receiving reparations payments until 1981, when the West German government created a reparations fund to benefit Romani German survivors. I show that this policy change cannot be understood without considering the efforts of Romani organizations.
K1 Transitional Justice
K1 Reparations
K1 Roma and Sinti
K1 Social Movements
K1 Germany
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa009