A bill was introduced in the Belgian Senate today which would automatically grant a 10 percent disability rating to all persons in Belgium who had been arrested and held during the Nazi regime as political prisoners.
The disability rating would be accorded on account of the “concentration camp pathology” suffered by these prisoners and to compensate for the deterioration in their physical well-being resulting from their deportation. The rating would be given to every political prisoner who had been deported after September 1944 and interned until liberated by the Allied forces. The disability rating would also be given to those imprisoned in the Belgian concentration camp at Brendonck. If enacted into law, it would automatically increase the amount of compensation to which former political prisoners are entitled.
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