The Suddeutsche Zeitung, leading Bavarian newspaper, continued today its expose of the lagging of the German restitution program for victims of Nazis while former Nazis or their dependents are recipients of regular government benefits, such as pensions.
The newspaper cited such cases as the wife of an imprisoned Nazi receiving a regular pension from the government while the widow of a Jew murdered by the Gestapo in a Latvian ghetto receives nothing. The newspaper, which together with the Bavarian Radio recently began making public many such contrasts, contends that these incidents reveal a trend in official restitution policy.
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