German Forced Labour Compensation Programme
- German Forced Labour Compensation Programme
The German Forced Labour Compensation Programme was a program to pay compensation to people forced by Nazi Germany to work as slaves during World War II. Payments was also made to some of their heirs.
On 12 August 2000, a German law, German Foundation Act (GFA), came into force, creating a German Foundation entitled "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future", to provide financial compensation to former slave and forced labourers and certain other victims of National Socialist (Nazi) injustice. The funds for this German Foundation, a total amount of EUR 5.1 billion (DEM 10 billion), were made available in equal parts by the German government and German companies.
The programme has ended in 2007.
See also
*The Holocaust
*Labor camp
References
* [http://www.compensation-for-forced-labour.org/english_home.html German Forced Labour Compensation Programme]
*Reuters, [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1260929.htm Germany ends war chapter with "slave fund" closure] , 12 Jun 2007
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