Germany agreed to grant compensation and start paying pensions to the Jews who survived the blockade of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War, as well as two other groups that did not receive payments from Germany. This is reported by Associated Press with reference to the organization, considering the claims of Jews affected by the Nazis.
Total pension will receive 6.5 thousand people, mainly in Israel, North America, in the countries of the former USSR and Western Europe. Of these, lifelong payments in the amount of 375 euros will receive 4.5 thousand who were in Leningrad during the blockade.
In July, the German veteran of Heinrich Shepe, who survived the Soviet captivity during the war years, demanded compensation for the Genocide of the USSR citizens from Germany. He noted that Germany paid compensation to Jews for the Holocaust. “And the fact that in the former Soviet Union as a result of a military attack of Germany in the period from 1944 to 1945, more than 25 million people died, isn’t it genocide?” – Speed Shepay.