OSIJEK, Nov 30 (Hina) - The deputy of the Austrian and Germanminorities in the Croatian parliament, Nikola Mak, said in Osijek onWednesday that a wrong picture was being painted of the draftcompensation agreement with Austria because
the damages it regulatedreferred to a small number of Austrians who fled Croatia after WW2.
OSIJEK, Nov 30 (Hina) - The deputy of the Austrian and German
minorities in the Croatian parliament, Nikola Mak, said in Osijek on Wednesday
that a wrong picture was being painted of the draft compensation agreement with
Austria because the damages it regulated referred to a small number of
Austrians who fled Croatia after WW2. Mak said the figure could
range from 2,000 to 3,000 and be even much smaller as "many who will apply for
damages will not have the appropriate documentation".
He reiterated that Germans and Austrians in Croatia were "deeply hurt
by President Stjepan Mesic's statement that they collaborated with the Nazi
regime". He said that genocide was committed against them after 1944.