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Belgium Submits Demand to Germany for Compensation for Nazi Victims

June 6, 1956
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The Belgian Government has handed a note to the Bonn Government demanding that West Germany pay compensation to non-German nationals who were interned in Nazi concentration camps, it was announced here today.

This brings to eight the number of nations which have protested to Bonn that its compensation law for individual victims of Nazism discriminates between German and non-German nationals. The other countries which have demanded improved treatment for nationals who suffered in German-occupied countries are Denmark, France, Britain, Greece, Holland, Luxembourg and Norway.

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