!!!Opferfürsorge

Victims of National Socialist Regime, Legal Provisions Governing 
Compensation of, provisions made by law (1945 and 1947) for the 
compensation of victims of political persecution and the fight for a 
democratic Austria under the National Socialist regime from 1933-1945 
as well as for their surviving dependants. According to these legal 
provisions, holders of an authorisation certificate receive 
compensation pensions for Nazi victims or their surviving dependants 
as well as maintenance payments dependent on the amount of their 
income. The laws also provide for various types of preferential 
treatment, welfare services and other compensation measures for 
holders of an authorisation certificate or victim´s identity 
card. As of July 1, 1997, a total of 2,750 victims of the Nazi 
regime and their surviving dependants were receiving such 
compensation.

!Literature
B. Birti, Opferfuersorgegesetz, 1993; R. Dittrich and H. 
Tades, Arbeitsrecht, 1994.


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