The entire Austrian Parliament, with the exception of four Communist deputies, today voted for two bills providing for the possible restitution of confiscated property of minor Nazi offenders and for the resumption of pension payments to former Nazis.
The bill restores to former Nazis the property seized from them by the courts after their conviction. Much of this property was “Aryanized” under the Nazis and originally belonged to Jews.
Meanwhile, the Association of Jewish Merchants, at a meeting here, charged the government with making virtually no effort to indemnify Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.
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