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Article: Washington und Berlin zwischen den Kriegen. Die Mixed Claims Commission in den transatlantischen Beziehungen.(Book review)
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- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Washington und Berlin zwischen den Kriegen. Die Mixed Claims Commission in den transatlantischen Beziehungen. By Burkhard Jahnicke (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003), pp.370; 68.00 [euro].
A study of the Mixed Claims Commission, the joint American-German arbitration tribunal which heard United States citizens' damages claims against Germany for the destruction of property caused by the Reich's actions in the First World War, might seem like a dry and arcane exercise. However, Burkhard Jahnicke's work, originally a Hamburg University dissertation, should be of interest well beyond the circle of specialists in the history of international law. While the ...