The payment of compensation to victims of Nazism and Fascism in Austria who now live abroad moved one step closer to realization today when the Finance Committee of the Austrian Parliament adopted a measure to this effect.
The bill, pushed through by the votes of the two government coalition parties, provides for payment to persons persecuted between 1933 and 1945. It would pay out a total of 550 million schillings over an eleven-year period. An official statement by a government spokesman stressed that the government is not obliged to pay such compensation but wishes to do something positive for needy persecutees who left Austria.
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