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Holocaust Pension Scheme Expands

Discussion in 'WWII Today' started by GRW, Nov 15, 2012.

  1. GRW

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    Should have said compensation scheme.
    "Germany has announced plans to increase pension payments to Holocaust survivors as they enter their final years.

    It comes sixty years after a landmark accord started German government compensation for victims of Nazi crimes.
    Most Holocaust survivors experienced extreme trauma as children, suffered serious malnutrition, and lost almost all of their relatives - leaving them today with severe psychological and medical problems, and little or no family support network to help them cope.
    In acknowledgement of that, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has officially signed off on revisions to the original 1952 compensation treaty.
    It will increase pensions for those living in eastern Europe and broaden who is eligible for payments.
    Contributions to home care for survivors have already been increased.
    Julius Berman, chairman of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, said: 'Survivors are passing away on a daily basis but the other side is that individual survivors are needing more help than ever.
    'While a person came out of the camps very young and eventually developed a life of their own over the years, the impact of what happened at the beginning is now coming to the fore.
    'Whether it's mentally or physically, they're sicker than their peers of the same age'
    Germany has paid - primarily to Jewish survivors - some 70 billion euros in compensation overall for Nazi crimes since the agreement was signed in 1952.
    In one change to the treaty that Germany agreed to earlier this year, the country will provide compensation payments to a new category of Nazi victims - some 80,000 Jews who fled ahead of the advancing German army and mobile killing squads and eventually resettled in the former Soviet Union. "
    Germany expands compensation for Nazi victims | Mail Online
     
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  2. scipio

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    Good News - shame its too late for many. It would be nice to see BASF and Bayer contribute but I suppose that is asking too much.

    70 Billion Euros sounds a lot but I am sure that no survivor received more than $7000 each ( I know a Scottish Jewess survivor who was made infertile by one of Mengele's experiments, financed by Bayer got $2000) - so Germany is paying about the same as BP for Gulf of Mexico Oil spill.
     
  3. sunny971

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    There are not that many holocaust survivors alive out there anymore. Every year less and less. Just like our vets. It's heartbreaking to see that generation dissappear
     
  4. Skipper

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    A bit cynical in my opinion and much too late. It will be paid to the last survivors by Germans who weren't even born during WW2 and by a government who isn't responsible for the horrors done by the Nazis. Some people who might actually be discouraged to apply, because of all the adminstrave documents and the small amounts in the end . It's not much for a life...
     
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    That is true.. What's even worse is Germans have still been paying off their World War One reparations. They just finished paying it off in 2010. it's insane to think they were paying for something that happened almost a century ago. It's a bit silly..


    The holocaust victims suffered terribly in the hands of the nazis. Unfortunately someone has to pay for what the Nazis did. It's not fair to this generation but the victims deserve compensation and someone has to pay. There are not that many out there, so it's pennies to the German people . It should have been increased many moons ago... But I guess it's better than not getting anything.

    But your right skip, at what point do people stop blaming this generation for something past generations perpetrated.
     

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