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Holocaust survivors forced to work in Nazi ghettos to receive £275billion payout

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Post by Guest Mon Jun 09, 2014 10:02 am

TENS of thousands of Holocaust survivors forced to work in Nazi ghettos will receive compensation of more than £275billion, it was announced today.

The German parliament has approved plans to extend pension payments for around 40,000 elderly Jewish people who were used as labourers during the Second World War. The payout means all people qualifying for the pensions can have it backdated to 1997 and the compensation would average just under £6,900 for each person.

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany helped organise the deal.

Greg Schneider, an official from the group, said the news "brings a long-delayed measure of justice to elderly survivors of ghettos."


http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/480521/Holocaust-survivors-275billion-payout

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Post by Guest Mon Jun 09, 2014 10:06 am

?

So who is getting the other £274 billion?

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Post by Guest Mon Jun 09, 2014 10:07 am

Don't think £6,900 sounds too much for what they went through, especially now they must be quite old and in need of it.

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Post by Tommy Monk Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:32 pm

Yeah body, the figures don't add up.



It wasn't just Jews who were victims of The Nazi regime. Do others get anything?
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Post by Tommy Monk Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:35 pm

40,000x6900 = 276million.


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Post by Raggamuffin Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:50 pm

Is it supposed to say million instead of billion then?
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Post by Guest Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:55 pm

Well, it can't ever compensate or take away what these poor people were put through, but it's a step in the right direction at least.

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Post by Raggamuffin Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:55 pm

Different figures here.

http://dailyjournalonline.com/news/world/german-parliament-extends-holocaust-pensions/article_d0f31e6e-1f5c-5937-b4d5-435849d4bdc6.html
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Post by Guest Mon Jun 09, 2014 4:04 pm

Well, whatever it is, it's about time they got it as they have been discussing it for years and the survivors are dying off now.

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