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Bad Dog

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Thu Mar 31, 2016, 05:14 AM Mar 2016

National Archives: UK victims of Nazi abuse in 1960s compensation

From the BBC.

Harrowing accounts of Nazi persecution against UK victims have been revealed in 1960s files from the National Archives, which show them claiming compensation for their suffering.

The testimonies include one from an RAF officer who took part in the 1944 Great Escape and the daughter of resistance heroine, Violette Szabo.

About 4,000 people applied to the UK Foreign Office in 1964-65 for help from a £1m fund, paid for by West Germany.

A quarter of claims were successful.

Many were rejected because, though the claimants had suffered under the Nazis as prisoners of war or civilian internees, their imprisonment had not been illegal. Others were rejected because they were not British citizens.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35927023
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