"The agreement was reached at the past meeting of the observation council in Germany in the end of June," he said.
German parliament adopted the law on the payment of compensations to victims of Nazism in July 2000. Until now, not one Russian has received the entire sum of compensation, which may come up to 1,000 to 15,000 euros depending on the gravity of forced labor.
About 130,000 Russians, out of the 528,000 claiming for payments, will not, most probably, get compensations in full volume.
Grishin said that, according to the German law, the right to compensation goes only for citizens forcibly brought to the Third Reich and doing forced labor at the works there. The sums can be received also by their heirs who can with documents prove the fact of slavery.
"We are conducting negotiations with the German fund on the payment of compensations also to other categories of Russian citizens who have suffered from Nazism, particularly prisoners of concentration camps on Russian territory and prisoners of war. An agreement has been reached on an additional 16.5 million euros for these ends. Germany commits itself to complete all compensation payments in May 2005," Grishin said.
