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Article: Jews had to pay to reach death camps.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- February 25, 2003
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Byline: Liam Christopher
AUSTRIAN Jews had to pay for their own deportation and subsequent extermination in Nazi death camps, historians said yesterday.
A new report marked the first time the country has confronted its wartime complicity in a significant way.
Thousands of Jews - including those sent to concentration camps outside German borders - were forced to pay a special flight tax, and a Jewish property levy to leave the Third Reich, the report said.
The financial dispossession of Jews before their deportation was described by Ang elika Shoshana Jensen, one of 160 researchers commissioned by the Austrian government four years ago ...