Wartime Compensation

[Scylax]

Was there any compensation offered to people who lost their homes from bombing, etc. during WW1 and WW2, and if so, by whom ?

[boxtops]

Seems W.s Churchill suggested something of this course of action..

http://histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/air/eur/bob/phase/p3/bof/bli-insur.html

[Barks]

I seem to remember reading the West German government paid compensation to victims of Luftwaffe bombing raids on the neutral Republic of Ireland; presumeably these were bombers that strayed over the border whilst attacking legitimate targets in Ulster

[atalanta]

Just after WW 2 my father paid £200 for his first home, and as it had bomb damage ( London) he got a grant of £200 for repairs. Can't tell you who gave it to him, but I am guessing the War Office

[Peter Pedant]

Time of big change - Megarry - big shot lawyer - made his name for his opinion on a bomb site -if it was rebuilt and leasehold, could the pre war leaseholder claim occupation ? (Yes I think)

Insurance was usually void for 'acts of war'
and I think the govt paid, you know

if you were bombed out - the govt arranged for mass production of 'Utility' furniture - they had the funny half-birds eye mark on them - designed by Gordon Russell - and I think you could refurnish a house for something like £25.

and finally - you remember the Wilson Govt 1964 - ? some clever clever fellow pleaded in court that the burning of the Burmese Oil Fields in 1941-2 was NOT an act of war because the Brit Govt did it to prevent Japanese exploitation and not in the course of war

and the result was .... an act of parliament with retorspective effect.
Not very left wing at all
howls of protest....

this question has been asked before only four uyears ago:

see

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/History/Question874532.html

[Peter Pedant]

The case I was thinking about was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmah_Oil_Co._v_Lord_Advocate