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Jewish Holocaust victims body says German compensation too low

Sep 20, 2007, 11:45 GMT

Berlin - A special fund set up by the German government to compensate Jewish victims of the wartime Nazi regime is inadequate, the Jewish Claims Conference said Thursday.

The Claims Conference, set up after World War II to secure compensation for the victims of the Holocaust, welcomed the establishment of the fund by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Merkel's approval of a fund totalling 100 million euros (140 million dollars) for Holocaust survivors who worked in the ghettos of wartime Europe was 'a positive step,' the Claims Conference said.

But the payment of a maximum of 2,000 euros per person was insufficient compensation for the work carried out by the victims.

The criteria for handing out the payments were also not clear and too restrictive, the organization said.

It added that survivors should continue to be able to pursue their legal claims.

On Wednesday the German cabinet decided to set up the fund, offering a one-off payment of 2,000 euros to those who were forced to work in a wartime ghetto under the Nazis and had received no other compensation.

© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur


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