Unpacking Our History Lecture Series: Holocaust and Slavery Reparations with Thomas Craemer
Professor Thomas Craemer grew up in post-World War II Germany. One day, he met a Holocaust survivor who had retired from Israel to Germany of all places. For four decades, Mieciu Langer had received a reparations pension from the (West) German government. If reparations have the power to bring about reconciliation in this case, then reparations from the US Government to the Black descendants of the formerly enslaved might bring about racial reconciliation in the United States as well.
Thomas Craemer, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at University of Connecticut. Professor Craemer is an expert on slavery reparations, racial bias and the psychology of racism.