Hitler's Reparations To The Victims Of The Holocaust

Berlin is a city full of history. If you take a historic tour or just walk through the streets, it can feel like the histories of ten countries have been stuffed into one city. Palaces, museums, monuments and churches line the street, many bearing scars from the piece of German history that overshadows the rest; 1920s Hitler's rule and the genocide committed under his dictatorship. in the Hitler began his political climb, in 1932 he got over thirty-five percent of the vote, in 1933 he became the Führer of Germany, in 1945 he Committed suicide. Between the beginning of Hitler's rise to power and 1945, the Nazis systematically murdered millions of Jews, Gypsies, Communists, political opponents, homosexuals, disabled people, and other people deemed …show more content…
Also, what can the United States learn from Germany about moving on from the most disgusting parts of our own history?

In 1952 Germany started paying reparations to the victims of the Holocaust. The process wasn't perfect by any means, if a victim was filed under resistor instead of victim they got more money, since homosexuality was still illegal people persecuted by the Nazis for their sexuality couldn't claim reparations, victims in places under Soviet control couldn't get payments, and perhaps most problematically many victims just weren't reached. Victims had fled Germany and by that point were dispersed throughout the world. Now, sixty years later, Germany, committed to reaching every victim, continues its reparations program and has fixed many of the issues that inundated the reparations program before. On the other hand, The United States has never paid reparations to victims of slavery, African-American victims of discrimination or the descendants of these groups who are at a disadvantage because of the exploitation and abuse their ancestors suffered, despite the huge monetary benefits the United States and its industries gained from abusing people. Union General