On December 17, 1999 — German, American and Eastern European officials reached a historic agreement on compensation for forced labor during Nazi Germany, 54 years after World War II.
There were approximately 4.6 million prisoners of war who were forced to work in Germany. Soldiers and non-commissioned officers were in camps called "stalag" (Stalag, short for Stammlager, translated as "base camp"), and officers in "offlazes" (Offizierslager). Under international law, the "Treaty for the Treatment of Prisoners of War," which Germany also signed in 1929, expressly allowed them to be employed as laborers, and non-commissioned officers as supervisors of such work, without any compensation. , provided they do not, they can engage in work that would be related to "military activities" or in dangerous jobs. The captured officers were spared their jobs.
For decades after the war, prisoners who stayed in concentration camps for more than six months received some form of compensation from Germany. Twenty million forced laborers in Nazi Germany got nothing.
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