Britain Considers Compensating Holocaust Victims

On January 18, 1998, British ministers agreed to publish a full list of the names of the 25,000 companies, partnerships, and individuals who did not receive assets that had been confiscated during the war, while various advocates urged the British Government to compensate up to 25,000 victims of the Holocaust who had assets now worth about £600m ($978m) stolen by the British authorities after World War II... [more]