http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/05/world/europe/france-holocaust-payments/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
France agrees to pay $60 million to those deported during Holocaust
By Sandrine Amiel and Greg Botelho, CNN
December 8, 2014 -- Updated 2113 GMT (0513 HKT)
More than 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust.
Holocaust Rail Justice Act, stated that more than 75,000 Jews and thousands of others were moved from France to Nazi concentration camps on SNCF trains. Those transported included U.S. citizens and their relatives, as well as American military pilots shot down during the war.
An official at France's national railway declined to comment on the agreement when reached by CNN. Yet Guillois explained that the SNCF was not considered liable for the deportation of Jews in France, because it was commissioned by France's Vichy government -- which was formed after the armistice and collaborated with the Nazis -- to do so.
This isn't the first time that France, which was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1940 before reaching an armistice agreement with Adolf Hitler's government later that year, has borne some responsibility for the Holocaust.
As Guillois noted, this latest agreement is one of several mechanisms by the French government to compensate Holocaust victims since 1946, the year after World War II ended.
The Nazis systematically killed more than 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, along with millions of other people who were religious and ethnic minorities, political dissidents, homosexuals or disabled, in death camps situated primarily in Germany and Eastern Europe.
CNN's Sandrine Amiel reported from Paris, and CNN's Greg Botelho reported and wrote from Atlanta.
France agrees to pay $60 million to those deported during Holocaust
By Sandrine Amiel and Greg Botelho, CNN
December 8, 2014 -- Updated 2113 GMT (0513 HKT)
More than 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust.
Holocaust Rail Justice Act, stated that more than 75,000 Jews and thousands of others were moved from France to Nazi concentration camps on SNCF trains. Those transported included U.S. citizens and their relatives, as well as American military pilots shot down during the war.
An official at France's national railway declined to comment on the agreement when reached by CNN. Yet Guillois explained that the SNCF was not considered liable for the deportation of Jews in France, because it was commissioned by France's Vichy government -- which was formed after the armistice and collaborated with the Nazis -- to do so.
This isn't the first time that France, which was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1940 before reaching an armistice agreement with Adolf Hitler's government later that year, has borne some responsibility for the Holocaust.
As Guillois noted, this latest agreement is one of several mechanisms by the French government to compensate Holocaust victims since 1946, the year after World War II ended.
The Nazis systematically killed more than 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, along with millions of other people who were religious and ethnic minorities, political dissidents, homosexuals or disabled, in death camps situated primarily in Germany and Eastern Europe.
CNN's Sandrine Amiel reported from Paris, and CNN's Greg Botelho reported and wrote from Atlanta.
Fukk this earth
They're getting like 200k each
and bullshyt refrains like "but but, I never owned a slave!"
