Holocaust compensation

Published on 23/06/2006 00:46

An American lawyer, Ed Fagan, is to take the holocaust compensation juggernaut to Poland (your report, 21 June). Putting the squeeze on German industry, Swiss bankers and French railways is one thing, but Poland?

Who was occupied longer or treated more brutally than the Poles? And after millions had been murdered, all they got out of the whole thing was to exchange Nazi masters for Stalinists.

In Scotland, the evidence of their loss is all around in the form of Polish surnames. So many stayed here because they didn't have anywhere to go back to or, pertinently, any one. They were on the winning side but still ended up as losers. And now they are being told to cough up 680 million in "compensation"? Words fail me.

S ROSS, Strathmartine Road, Dundee