Conquest and Redemption

In Conquest and Redemption, Gregg J. Rickman explains how the Nazis stole the possessions of their Jewish victims and obtained the cooperation of institutions across Europe in these crimes of convenience. He also describes how those institutions are being brought to justice, sixty years later, for their retention of their ill-gotten gains. Rickman painstakingly describes the structural composition and motivation for the plundering of Jewish assets. The Holocaust will always remain a memory of unequalled pain and suffering, but, as Rickman shows, the return of stolen goods to their survivors is a partial victory for the long aggrieved.

Gregg J. Rickman is the former Staff director for the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the US House of Representatives Committee on International Relations. He was legislative director for former United States Senator Alfonse D'Amato, and also directed the Senate Banking Committee Swiss Bank Inquiry.