Compensation for Forced Labour in World War II : The German Compensation Law of 2 August 2000
Journal
Journal of International Criminal Justice
ISSN
1478-1387
ISSN-Digital
1478-1395
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2005-03-01
Author(s)
Abstract
On 28 June 2004, a Chamber of the German Constitutional Court decided to not adjudicate constitutional complaints brought before the Court by an association of former Italian military detainees and 942 such former detainees individually. 1 In effect, the Chamber thus upheld as constitutional the provisions of a Statute (the Stiftungsgesetz Statute), adopted by the German Parliament on 2 August 2000, according to which the respective detainees cannot claim financial compensation for their detention and forced labour under German law. The Chamber also decided that the Statute does not violate the right of property of the complainants as protected by Article 14 of the German Constitution (Basic Law). The decision of the Chamber is non-appealable.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Publisher
Oxford Univ. Press
Publisher place
Oxford
Volume
3
Number
1
Start page
243
End page
252
Pages
10
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
234601