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Germany okays compensation for Soviet POWs
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGermany plans to compensate former Soviet prisoners of war for their suffering during World War II, a politician says.
The German parliamentary budget committee approves a total 10 million euros ($11 million) in funding “for symbolic financial recognition” of ex-Soviet soldiers held prisoner by the Nazis, lawmaker Hans-Ulrich Krueger says.
It is unclear how many possible claimants there could be.
But Krueger, who is deputy spokesman on budget matters for the Social Democrats’ parliamentary group, says that around 5.3 million Soviet soldiers were held by German forces between 1941 and 1945, more than half of whom died.
He says they were the second biggest group of Nazi victims after Jews.
—AFP
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