For decades, governments and companies refused compensation to former forced labourers.<\/p>\n
It was only in the year 2000 that class-action lawsuits from Jewish survivors in the USA led to the establishment of the foundation \u201cRemembrance, Responsibility and Future\u201d (EVZ), which was financed by the state and industry.<\/p>\n
They paid between 500 to 7,700 Euros to around 1.7 million survivors, depending on their persecution category. Prisoners of war and Western European civil workers were excluded from these payments.<\/p>\n
The compensation should demonstrate a financial, but not a moral final action. The foundation continues to support various memorial projects, including this app.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-140","station","type-station","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":{"id":"211","goto":"200 m north of Checkpoint Charlie","street":"Friedrichstra\u00dfe 200","city":"Berlin","zip":"10117","gps":"52.50970941102647, 13.3898127","directions":"U Hallesches Tor","picture":{"width":150,"height":150,"file":"2022\/05\/lindenstr-evz-f.jpg","filesize":195491,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"lindenstr-evz-f-300x200.jpg","width":300,"height":200,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":16950,"url":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lindenstr-evz-f-300x200.jpg"},"large":{"file":"lindenstr-evz-f-1024x682.jpg","width":1024,"height":682,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lindenstr-evz-f-1024x682.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"lindenstr-evz-f-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lindenstr-evz-f-150x150.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"lindenstr-evz-f-768x512.jpg","width":768,"height":512,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lindenstr-evz-f-768x512.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 7","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"4","iso":"20","shutter_speed":"0.000699790062981","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]},"ID":"397","name":"lindenstr-evz-f.jpg","path":"\/www\/htdocs\/w0177182\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lindenstr-evz-f.jpg","url":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lindenstr-evz-f-150x150.jpg","full_url":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lindenstr-evz-f.jpg","title":"21101","caption":"[:de]Vor der Victoria-Versicherung[:en]Vor der Victoria-Versicherung[:]","description":"Cord Pagenstecher","alt":"","srcset":false},"media":[211,212,213],"bios":[440],"sources":"\u201cCompensation for Forced Labourers\u201d: Barbara Mattauch (1); Collection of the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt (2, 3)<\/br>\u201c4.37 Billion\u201d: Interview with G\u00fcnter Saathoff, 2009, Online archive \u201cForced Labor 1939-1945\u201d<\/br>\u201cNo Compensation\u201d: Interview with Janina Halina G., 2005, Online archive \u201cForced Labor 1939-1945\u201d, za255"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}