Austria should compensate Jewish survivors of the Holocaust for being thrown out of their homes, a panel of historians said. Austria never passed legislation enabling Jews to return to their homes after the war because legislators knew that doing this would have angered former Nazis, who made up a far larger bloc of voters, the panel said.
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