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Article: FRANCE OUTLINES LEGAL PLAN FOR REPARATIONS TO JEWS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 16, 1999
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Fifty-five years after Allied troops liberated France, the country's justice minister yesterday unveiled the legal framework for helping Jews get reparations for property seized by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime during World War II.
The announcement signaled a commitment by French officials to assume responsibility for the Vichy regime's systematic persecution and deportation of Jews.
From lucrative businesses to the simplest sewing machine, Jewish assets seized by the Nazi collaborationists have long been an unwritten chapter in the story of France's systematic persecution of Jews during World War II.
Vichy laws banned Jews from many professions, ...