Joe Lieberman: “nearly 2 years ago, it was my privilege to meet with Mr. Hugo Princz in my office. He told me how he and his family had…”

“nearly 2 years ago, it was my privilege to meet with Mr. Hugo Princz in my office. He told me how he and his family had been victimized by Nazi brutality and disregard for international laws and civilized norms; how his family's American passports were ignored in 1942 by German officials and they were sent to death camps; how his entire family was exterminated simply because they were Jewish as were so many other Jews during those dark days of the Holocaust; and how fate intervened in the closing days of World War II and American soldiers intercepted and liberated the prison train which was taking him to his death. I was saddened by the horrors he had suffered and endured and by the losses he had sustained. But just as powerful as the sorrow I felt for him was the outrage I felt at the brutality he was still enduring from the legalistic folly being perpetuated by the German Government which refused to resolve his claims for fair reparations.”