Foreign Office: Claims Department: Correspondence and Claims Files

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Foreign Office: Claims Department: Correspondence and Claims Files

1919-1990

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8249

This series contains files of the Claims Department concerning compensation claims by British nationals against foreign governments arising out of the Second World War and subsequent claims by individuals and the government against foreign states, and by foreign states and their nationals against the United Kingdom. The series includes a collection of compensation claims files for those British nationals who suffered Nazi persecution and who made a claim under the British Victims of Nazi Persecution compensation agreement for Nazi persecution by British nationals. The files were created by the Foreign Office Claims Department in 1964 to record British enquiries and claims for compensation. The Nazi persecution claim files (prefix HNP) consists of a completed standard form, personal (mainly handwritten) testimonies of Nazi persecution recording events and occurrences, documenting individuals' experiences during the holocaust and internment in concentration camps or prisons, and related correspondence. The series also includes files about the Foreign Compensation Commission's activities, and administration files relating to the Nazi Persecution claim files.

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