Britain will soon unveil plans for a $41 million fund aimed at compensating Holocaust victims for assets confiscated by the government during World War II. Thousands of Jews from Germany and Eastern Europe transferred their assets to Britain during the 1930s. When war broke out, Britain classified the moneys as property of the enemy and seized the accounts.
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