Seventh. The case of Jan Stolarski. Stolarski was 15 years old when deported to Germany for forced labor. He was arrested in 1943. and held in prison and a concentration camp until he was liberated at the end of the war. He was accused of having incited his countrymen to keep up Polish traditions and to sing Polish songs. as well as voicing antiNazi opinions. He suffered permanent damage to body and health as a result of his ordeal in Germany. The claim has been rejected by the Germans with the following explanation: The claimant was not injured . . . as part of the Nazi rule of terror and in contempt of human rights. His deportation for forced labor was not due to his being of nonGerman race or a national of a foreign state. It was a measure taken to relieve the shortage of labor caused by the war. which affected people of all nationalities. The claimants arrest and imprisonment were not the consequence of his nationality but of his attitude and antiNazi utterances. which must have seemed to the then authorities an incitement of the Polish laborers.
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