For more than 50 years, Eastern Europeans who were forced to work for German firms by the Nazis waited for compensation while surviving slave laborors from western countries received some kind of financial acknowledgement.

For all those years these victims were a neglected minority, but in the recent years they gained political and media support and finally the few survivors are about to receive a small sum of money for their suffering.

Justice at Last reveals the development and the important facts of slave labor under the Nazi regime. It draws a picture of the difficult path to the present compensation process.

The students who created this site wish to share thorough research work showing the complicated system of exploitation, wilful neglect, and finally the politically enforced act of compensation.

 
We are stating just a few suggestions. We hope visitors will include additional suggestions in the forum section of the site.

- Students can participate in this site's diary-section. Have them select a character and read the history to develop a detailed entry that can be shared in a classroom dramatic reading.

- Students could create a description of the fate of an individual slave labor victim. The accounts could be shared on a class bulletin board or through a Power Point presentation.

- A lesson might be started with a brain-storming session on the question of what students associate with slave labor, which gives an excellent preparation for the shock of seeing people forced to work in a relatively modern western society. Have students compare their original ideas with impressions gained after visiting the site.

- The art on the site gives students the chance to find an emotional access to the problem of modern slave labor. Have students create a collage or poetry related to their learning.

- One of German's finest political cartoonists has shared his views through this political cartoon. Ask students to develop an editorial cartoon or letter to the editor to express their views.

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- The site's opening includes a dramatic quotation from the research. Have students locate a single quotation that stands out to them. Have them read that in class and explain why the line had such meaning to them.

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The student developers of this site believe it can contribute to education for several reasons:

- Students receive information about one little-known aspect of the holocaust and the consequences for the victims as well as for modern society. This site illustrates the trend of not forgetting victims of dictatorships.

- The development of a country from a dictatorship to a democratic society is shown, which includes the change of attitudes towards the victims of that dictatorship.

- The contents may incite the students' interest in learning more about history in general and the holocaust and its consequences in particular.

- Students get the chance to appreciate their own lives in a democratic society that tries to care for victims of any kind of injustice. They see that this wasn't necessarily a matter that could be taken for granted and that it was and is essential to fight for the rights of victims.