As a general rule, POWs who were in stalags will not be compensable claims, " said Delissa Ridgway, head of the Justice Department's Foreign Claims Settlement Commission.
32.
In addition, in 1885, the Prussian Settlement Commission financed from the national government's budget was set up to buy land from non-German hands and distribute it among German farmers.
33.
On behalf of US citizens, the US Foreign Claims Settlement Commission reached agreements with the German government in 1998 and 1999 to compensate Holocaust victims who immigrated to the US after the war ."
34.
The author is cited in the Settlement Commission article not for his views of anything, but for a statistic he surely did not work out by himself : Number and origin of the settlers.
35.
Following an unrealized Germanize the region, particularly after the founding of Germany in 1871, and from 1886 onwards the Prussian Settlement Commission was active in increasing German land ownership in formerly Polish areas.
36.
The nomination of David B . Rivkin to the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission was held off after several Democrats said they were concerned about the nominee's stance in recent writings involving human rights issues.
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The Settlement Commission's goal to Germanise Polish territories failed and with the fall of German Empire in 1918 ( at the end of World War I ), the Commission ceased to function by 1924.
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According to the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, the property confiscated from American owners _ houses, factories, banks, mines, real estate _ was valued at more than $ 1.8 billion in 1960.
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For instance, the Settlement Commission throughout the 27 years of its existence managed to plant about 25, 000 German families on 1, 240 km?( 479 mi?) of land in Greater Poland and Pomerania.
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Beginning in 1967, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission established the China Claims Program, in which American citizens could denominate the sum total of their lost assets and property following the Communist seizure of foreign property in 1950.
