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The Week in Germany: Current Affairs September 15, 2006 Polish Forced Laborers to Receive More Funds From Germany Former Polish forced laborers are due to receive more funds in compensation for their suffering during the Nazi era through a German foundation that has accumulated an additional 820,000 euros ($1 million) in interest, according to dpa. The foundation, "Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft", or Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future, has freed up the funds to go to help more than 4,000 particularly needy Polish victims of Nazi war crimes. A Polish partner organization, "Polnisch-Deutsche Aussöhnung", or Polish-German Reconciliation, selects the recipients and will receive the funds. Any additional funds will moreover be forwarded on to other former Nazi victims who were not forced laborers, for example to finance operations. The compensation drive for wartime Polish forced laborers got underway
in mid-2001, after German industry and the German government finally reached
an agreement following protracted negotiations to compensate forced laborers
for German industry from the Nazi era all over the world through a special
fund of some 5 billion euros ($6.3 billion).
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