Reconciliation fund

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The Austrian Fund for Reconciliation, Peace and Cooperation (also known as the Reconciliation Fund for short ) existed from 2000 to 2005 and made voluntary payments to forced laborers in what is now Austria during the National Socialist era .

On November 27, 2000, the Reconciliation Fund Act came into force. With the help of the International Tracing Service of the Red Cross in Bad Arolsen , the archives of the Austrian federal states , the insurance companies, the Mauthausen memorial in the Ministry of the Interior and a multilingual questionnaire, the names of the victims at the time were researched.

As of December 31, 2005, around 132,000 people worldwide had received benefits from this fund , and a total of 439,254,087 euros was fed into the fund. 352.6 million euros were paid out. On December 31, 2005, the reconciliation fund was closed. Payments to victims of Nazi forced labor are no longer possible.

The remainder of the reconciliation fund was u. a. the future fund of the Republic of Austria , which finances scientific and educational projects to come to terms with the Nazi regime and to promote tolerance and respect for human rights.

publication

  • Hubert Feichtlbauer: Forced Labor in Austria: 1938-1945. Fund for Reconciliation, Peace and Cooperation: Late Recognition, History, Fates. Braintrust, Verl. For further education, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-901116-21-4 .
  • Dieter Bacher - Stefan Karner (ed.): Forced laborers in Austria 1939–1945 and their post-war fate. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7065-5217-2
  • Stefan Karner (inter alia): Difficult legacy and “reparation”. Government's record in the field of restitution
  • Hermann Rafetseder: The fate of the Nazi forced labor. Findings on manifestations of the oppression and on the Nazi camp system from the work of the Austrian Reconciliation Fund. A documentation on behalf of the Future Fund of the Republic of Austria. Wiener Verlag für Sozialforschung in EHV Academicpress GmbH, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-94469-028-5 , online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Balance

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