NPR's Guy Raz reports from Prague that for weeks, elderly Czechs who were forced to work for the Nazi regime during World War Two have been filing into the Office of War Compensation. Today, the Office sent the first batch of ten thousand applications for payment to Berlin. While Czech Jews were sent to concentration camps, nearly half a million non-Jewish Czech citizens were forced to work for the Third Reich. Last summer, the Czech government negotiated a lump sum settlement with the German government, amounting to about 7500 dollars for each forced laborer.
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