Fund OKd for Nazi Slave Laborers

Austria’s parliament unanimously approved a $415-million fund to compensate aging victims who were forced into hard labor by the Nazis during World War II. An estimated 150,000 people are thought to be alive today who worked as slave and forced laborers in Austria. Under the law setting up the fund, one-time payments will range up to about $7,250 for slave laborers--those forced to work in concentration camps. Those forced to work in factories would receive about $2,420, while agricultural laborers would get about $1,380. Women who gave birth while serving as forced laborers in Austria would receive an extra $345.