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Ukrainian Ostarbeiters Can Expect Compensation this Fall

26 June, 1999 - 00:00

Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Anatoly Ponomarenko told
Interfax-Ukraine yesterday that Ukrainians, who were forcibly deported
as slave labor to Germany during the Second World War, will probably begin
to receive compensation as soon as the fall of this year. According to
the ambassador, there was a meeting to this effect on Tuesday at the office
of the German Chancellor attended by representatives of the Ukrainian Mutual
Understanding and Reconciliation Foundation.

What still remains the chief problem concerns the amount of compensation.
These payments, Mr. Ponomarenko noted, are to be allocated by the federal
government but formed by a special foundation funded by German enterprises,
banks, and insurance companies.

The companies are interested in earmarking half the funds for social
programs and the establishment of the Foundation for the Future aimed at
creating better living standards in recipient countries. Ukraine insists
that the greater part of the funds be paid to those who suffered from Nazism
and less be channeled to foundations. This is also the position of Russia,
Poland, the Czech Republic, and Belarus.

The ambassador noted that a fund is to be set up to pay compensation
to people who worked in German agriculture during the war.

 

 

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