United Restitution Organization (URO)

United Restitution Organization (URO) 

United Restitution Organization (URO) 

1 electronic resource (49 pages) 

The file contains eleven circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt), dated between July and October 1966. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1446, no. 1443, no. 1442, no. 1439, no. 1440, no. 1438, no. 1437, no. 1436, no. 1434, no. 1433, and no. 1431. They mainly deal with recent court judgements on questions of restitution, especially regarding juridical regulations, Nazi persecution in Slovakia, the purchase power of the Israeli pound, the assessment of belonging to the German speaking cultural sphere, the questions if Austrian citizens should be seen as people who were expelled, and finally pensions. The topics include: “Neuregelung wiederkehrender Leistungen“, „Verfolgungsmaßnahmen in der Slowakei“, “Kaufkraft des Israel-Pfundes“, “ Österreicher als Vertriebene?“, „, Feststellung der Zugehörigkeit zum deutschen Sprach- und Kulturkreis“, „Verlängerung der Frist des Paragraphen 190a BEG-Schlussgesetz“, „Textausgabe zum BEG“, „Souveränität der Slowakei“, „Haushaltssicherungsgesetz“, and „Rente des Vertriebenen“.