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Article: Hitler's slaves wait for justice
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2001
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During the war Jews were set to work for the Nazis in a programme
that treated them as dispensable objects. Now a group of elderly men
and women gather in a Finchley hall to demand compensation they have
for so long been denied.
ANDREW BILLEN reports
FOR anyone who has worked on a local newspaper the scene is
terribly familiar: the church hall, the moulded chairs, the
sandwiches, a couple of helium balloons stuck to the ceiling stranded
from some happier gathering and, at the front, behind Formica tables,
the grey-haired men - always, it seems, men - waiting to impose
order. This is the ceremony of the British pressure group meeting,