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Reparations Expansion Urged

June 10, 1987
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The Bundestag has come under pressure to adopt legislation to force the government to extend reparations payments to groups of Nazi victims who have received little or no compensation. They include former slave laborers including many Jews, Gypsies, members of German groups opposed to Hitler and the families of euthanasia victims.

The pressure is coming mainly from the opposition Green Party and from a Frankfurt-based anti-fascist organization known as the VVN. Both issued statements saying these groups were denied reparations for lack of legal framework.

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