It is they who. by their instructions and binding commentaries on the compensation law. have given a discriminatory character to the decisions of the German bureau and courts. That is why no result has been achieved by the interventions of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees or by periodical changes in the terms of the law. In the absence of good will. every version of the law in turn is distorted so as to make out that there was no real persecution on grounds of foreign nationality. but only crimes committed by foreign nationalsmen. women. and children who broke Nazi laws and were imprisoned. kept in camps. and subjected to forced labor because such measures were required by the interests of the German state. which needed labor. for the victorious prosecution of the war. or by the security of the armed forces which were occupying their countries. Directly or indirectly. it is the Government of the FGR itself which bears political and moral responsibility for the manner in which the obligation to compensate the victims of persecution is discharged.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing that foreign nationals are criminals.