Einige Fragen der individuellen Entschädigung der Ungarndeutschen (1989–1992) = Some Questions about Individual Compensations for Hungarian Germans (1989–1992)

Tóth, Ágnes (2022) Einige Fragen der individuellen Entschädigung der Ungarndeutschen (1989–1992) = Some Questions about Individual Compensations for Hungarian Germans (1989–1992). ROCZNIK POLSKO-NIEMIECKI (30). pp. 83-100. ISSN 1230-4360

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Abstract

Previous analyses have examined the compensation process carried out in Hungary in the 1990s from the perspective of the aspirations of political parties and changes in their positions in this regard, and in the context of the legal norms adopted. On the other hand, little attention has been paid to the opinions of the individual groups concerned regarding compensations, their concrete eff orts and the possibility of asserting their interests. In previous research, the societal costs of rights violations and their impact on the groups aff ected or on the lives of individuals have hardly been addressed. The documents attached to the applications for compensation (life stories, photographs, correspondence, fi les) shed light on countless stories of experiences that – going beyond individual survival strategies and struggles – also reveal the existential, psychological and physical eff ects of the violations of rights, which had consequences for generations. The study examines the position of the Hungarian-German community on individual decisions, the related activities of the national association of Hungarian Germans and the eff orts to incorporate the violations of rights into the community’s culture of remembrance.

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