OK I promise I'm sleeping after I write this. The Jewish situation is not comparable. The two main reasons are because that was not a situation that occured on American soil (although the turning back of Jews who would otherwise die and did die can be comparable) and also, mainly, because of the law applied. This was not simply a restitution for forced labor (or compensation for the precise desire to drive to extinction a large group of people) but also a restitution for stolen property and money.
Several countries and groups after the war have applied this law. The fact is that Jewish money is still in the hands of many Europeans also. The neutral Swiss certainly believe in being a part of the bandits of Europe.
-Rudey
--I promise i'm closing my window now, but please remember that this is not an issue where we compare different minorities. Play nice, for I will return soon.
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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
I can't remember who brought up Jews not demanding restitution for what they suffered at the hands of the Nazis, but I copied this from a book review site and thought it might be of some interest...
Paying for the Past: The Struggle over Reparations for Surviving Victims of the Nazi Terror
Authors: Christian Pross, Belinda Cooper and Erich H. Loewy
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, 276 pages, May 1998
Pross untangles the complicated history of reparations in West Germany, from the American military government’s 1947 law Number 59 (Restitution of Property Stolen in the Course of the "Aryanization of the Economy") to West Germany’s Federal Restitution law of 1957, and into the 1970’s.
Ok, NOW I'm REALLY off to bed! 
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