Insurgents from Uprising to receive compensation from Polish-German fund

According to Mateusz Chachaj, the spokesman for Polish German Foundation "Pojednanie," all prisoners of-war forced to work in Nazi Germany in violation of the Geneva Convention will receive compensation. So far, the foundation has maintained the position that war prisoners had no right to damages whether or not they were slave laborers. In the wake of a campaign by daily Gazeta Wyborcza, the foundation changed its stance and broadened the group of people it deems entitled to compensation. Under the new terms, the Warsaw Uprising insurgents arrested and forced to work in arms industry or forced to inactivate bombs and land mines will also be granted compensation. They will receive sums ranging from DM 4,000 DM 12,000, depending on their place of work during the war . (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp.1, 8)