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Emilia Verzeni committed Aug 4, 2017
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<sentence xml:id="P466E4"> <ENAMEX type="PERSON">Ian Hancock, Director of the Program of Romani Studies and the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at the University of Texas at Austin</ENAMEX>, has argued in favour of a much higher figure of <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">between 500,000 and 1,500,000</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
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<sentence xml:id="P467E0">Before being sent to the camps, the victims were herded into ghettos, including several hundred into the <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Warsaw Ghetto</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P467E0">Before being sent to the camps, the victims were herded into ghettos, including <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">several hundred</ENAMEX> into the <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Warsaw Ghetto</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P467E1"> Further east, teams of <ENAMEX type="INSTITUTION">Einsatzgruppen</ENAMEX>
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<sentence xml:id="P467E2">They were also targeted by the puppet regimes that cooperated with the <ENAMEX type="PERSON_TYPE">Nazis</ENAMEX>, e.g. the <ENAMEX type="EVENT">Ustaše regime</ENAMEX> in <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Croatia</ENAMEX>, where a large number of <ENAMEX type="PERSON_TYPE">Romani</ENAMEX> were killed in the <ENAMEX type="INSTALLATION">Jasenovac concentration camp</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
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<sentence xml:id="P519E0">The <ENAMEX type="EVENT">Nuremberg trials</ENAMEX> were a series of military tribunals, held by the <ENAMEX type="INSTITUTION">Allied forces</ENAMEX> after <ENAMEX type="EVENT">World War II</ENAMEX>, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Nazi Germany</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P519E1">The trials were held in the city of <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Nuremberg, Germany</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P519E2">The <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">first</ENAMEX>, and best known of these trials, described as &quot;the greatest trial in history&quot; by <ENAMEX type="PERSON">Norman Birkett</ENAMEX>, one of the <ENAMEX type="PERSON_TYPE">British</ENAMEX> judges who presided over it, was the trial of the major war criminals before the <ENAMEX type="INSTITUTION">International Military Tribunal (IMT)</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P519E3">Held <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946</ENAMEX>, the Tribunal tried <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">23</ENAMEX> of the most important political and military leaders of the <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Third Reich</ENAMEX> (except for <ENAMEX type="PERSON">Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels</ENAMEX>, all of whom had committed suicide several months before).</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P519E3">Held <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946</ENAMEX>, the Tribunal tried <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">23</ENAMEX> of the most important political and military leaders of the <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Third Reich</ENAMEX> (except for <ENAMEX type="PERSON">Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels</ENAMEX>, all of whom had committed suicide <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">several months before</ENAMEX>).</sentence>
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<sentence xml:id="P520E0">The <ENAMEX type="INSTITUTION">International Military Tribunal</ENAMEX> was opened on <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">November 19, 1945</ENAMEX>, in the <ENAMEX type="INSTALLATION">Palace of Justice</ENAMEX> in <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Nuremberg</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
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<sentence xml:id="P525E0">In the immediate aftermath of the <ENAMEX type="EVENT">Second World War</ENAMEX>, the <ENAMEX type="INSTITUTION">Jewish Agency</ENAMEX> led by <ENAMEX type="PERSON">Chaim Weizmann</ENAMEX> submitted to the <ENAMEX type="INSTITUTION">Allies</ENAMEX> a memorandum demanding reparations to <ENAMEX type="PERSON_TYPE">Jews</ENAMEX> by <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Germany</ENAMEX> but it received no answer.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P525E1">In <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">March 1951</ENAMEX>, a new request was made by <ENAMEX type="PERSON">Israel&apos;s foreign minister Moshe Sharett</ENAMEX> which claimed global recompense to <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Israel</ENAMEX> of <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">$1.5 billion</ENAMEX> based on the financial cost absorbed by <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Israel</ENAMEX> for the rehabilitation of <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">500,000</ENAMEX> <ENAMEX type="PERSON_TYPE">Jewish</ENAMEX> survivors.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P525E1">In <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">March 1951</ENAMEX>, a new request was made by <ENAMEX type="PERSON">Israel&apos;s foreign minister Moshe Sharett</ENAMEX> which claimed global recompense to <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Israel</ENAMEX> of $<ENAMEX type="MEASURE">1.5 billion</ENAMEX> based on the financial cost absorbed by <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Israel</ENAMEX> for the rehabilitation of <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">500,000</ENAMEX> <ENAMEX type="PERSON_TYPE">Jewish</ENAMEX> survivors.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P525E2"><ENAMEX type="PERSON">West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer</ENAMEX> accepted these terms and declared he was ready to negotiate other reparations.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P525E3">A Conference on <ENAMEX type="ORGANISATION">Jewish Material Claims against Germany</ENAMEX> was opened in <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">New York City</ENAMEX> by <ENAMEX type="PERSON">Nahum Goldmann</ENAMEX> in order to help with individual claims.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P525E4">After negotiations, the claim was reduced to a sum of <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">$845 million</ENAMEX> in direct and indirect compensation to be paid over a period of <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">14 years</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P525E4">After negotiations, the claim was reduced to a sum of $<ENAMEX type="MEASURE">845 million</ENAMEX> in direct and indirect compensation to be paid over a period of <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">14 years</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
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<sentence xml:id="P526E0">On <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">1952</ENAMEX> <ENAMEX type="PERSON">Ben Gurion</ENAMEX> argued that the reparation demand was based on recovering as much <ENAMEX type="PERSON_TYPE">Jewish</ENAMEX> property as possible &quot;so that the murderers do not become the heirs as well&quot;.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P526E1">His other argument was that the reparations were needed to finance the absorption and rehabilitation of the <ENAMEX type="EVENT">Holocaust</ENAMEX> survivors in <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Israel</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
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<sentence xml:id="P527E0">In <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">1988</ENAMEX>, <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">West Germany</ENAMEX> allocated another <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">$125 million</ENAMEX> for reparations.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P527E0">In <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">1988</ENAMEX>, <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">West Germany</ENAMEX> allocated another $<ENAMEX type="MEASURE">125 million</ENAMEX> for reparations.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P527E1"> In <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">1999</ENAMEX>, many <ENAMEX type="NATIONAL">German</ENAMEX> industries such as <ENAMEX type="BUSINESS">Deutsche Bank, Siemens or BMW</ENAMEX> faced lawsuits for their role in the forced labour during <ENAMEX type="EVENT">World War II</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P527E2">In order to dismiss these lawsuits, <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Germany</ENAMEX> agreed to raise <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">$5 billion</ENAMEX> of which <ENAMEX type="PERSON_TYPE">Jewish</ENAMEX> forced laborers still alive could apply to receive a lump sum payment of <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">between $2,500 and $7,500</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P527E3"> In <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">2012</ENAMEX>, <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Germany</ENAMEX> agreed to pay a new reparation of <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">772 million</ENAMEX> as a result of negotiations with <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Israel</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P527E2">In order to dismiss these lawsuits, <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Germany</ENAMEX> agreed to raise $<ENAMEX type="MEASURE">5 billion</ENAMEX> of which <ENAMEX type="PERSON_TYPE">Jewish</ENAMEX> forced laborers still alive could apply to receive a lump sum payment of <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">between $2,500 and $7,500</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P527E3"> In <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">2012</ENAMEX>, <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Germany</ENAMEX> agreed to pay a new reparation of <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">772 million</ENAMEX> as a result of negotiations with <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Israel</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
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<sentence xml:id="P528E0">In <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">2014</ENAMEX>, the <ENAMEX type="BUSINESS">SNCF</ENAMEX>, the <ENAMEX type="NATIONAL">French</ENAMEX> state-owned railway company, was compelled to allocate <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">$60 million</ENAMEX> to <ENAMEX type="PERSON_TYPE">American Jewish</ENAMEX> <ENAMEX type="EVENT">Holocaust</ENAMEX> survivors for its role in the transport of deportees to <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Germany</ENAMEX>, a sum equivalent to about <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">$100,000</ENAMEX> for each survivor.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P528E0">In <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">2014</ENAMEX>, the <ENAMEX type="BUSINESS">SNCF</ENAMEX>, the <ENAMEX type="NATIONAL">French</ENAMEX> state-owned railway company, was compelled to allocate $<ENAMEX type="MEASURE">60 million</ENAMEX> to <ENAMEX type="PERSON_TYPE">American Jewish</ENAMEX> <ENAMEX type="EVENT">Holocaust</ENAMEX> survivors for its role in the transport of deportees to <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Germany</ENAMEX>, a sum equivalent to about $<ENAMEX type="MEASURE">100,000</ENAMEX> for each survivor.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P528E1"> This is despite the fact that <ENAMEX type="BUSINESS">SNCF</ENAMEX> was forced by <ENAMEX type="NATIONAL">German</ENAMEX> authorities to cooperate in providing transport for <ENAMEX type="PERSON_TYPE">French Jews</ENAMEX> to the border and did not make any profit from this transport, according to <ENAMEX type="PERSON">Serge Klarsfeld, president of the organization Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees</ENAMEX> from <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">France</ENAMEX>.</sentence>
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<sentence xml:id="P529E0">These reparations were sometimes criticized in <ENAMEX type="LOCATION">Israel</ENAMEX> where they were seen as &quot;blood money&quot;.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P529E1"> Some of the reparations money was subject to a fraud <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">between 1993 and 2009</ENAMEX>, in which <ENAMEX type="MEASURE">$57 million</ENAMEX> was diverted to people who were not eligible.</sentence>
<sentence xml:id="P529E1"> Some of the reparations money was subject to a fraud <ENAMEX type="PERIOD">between 1993 and 2009</ENAMEX>, in which $<ENAMEX type="MEASURE">57 million</ENAMEX> was diverted to people who were not eligible.</sentence>
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