Some insurance companies anticipated Nazi dictates toward Jewish insurance policies by canceling life insurance, health insurance and pensions before they were ordered to do so, according to testimony given before the New York state Senate Insurance Committee. “Insurers appeared to be the creators of Nazi policy, not the victims,” said a vice president of a claims recovery service.
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