Germany has agreed to pay more than £2,000 in compensation to individual Holocaust survivors from Algeria, in the first scheme of its kind.
Eligible Jews who lived in the country between July 1940 and November 1942 will be entitled to the one-time payment arranged by the Claims Conference, the New York-based body which distributes restitution funds to Holocaust survivors.
It said the payment would be worth €2,556.46 (£2,264).
Algeria, a French colony during the Second World War, became part of Vichy France and was later occupied by Nazi Germany. It fell to the British-American invasion of North Africa in November 1942.
