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France to pay $60m into Holocaust compensation fund.

DDD said:
How did "Frenchmen" benefited from the inheritance then as mentioned above if there was no inheritance left?



My point is that the current government is Resistance descended and if they must pay because their pro-Deutch Frenchmen did ills in behalf of Hitler then: 1) Resistance descended government is being punished unjustly for cooperating with allies in WW2, 2) if it is tax then average French yaran of pie is paying because their grandparents fought together with allies against Hitler (i.e., losing wealth for no good reason due to generation gap), and 3) the ones whom may have profited from shipping people to their doom may (whom are the real culprits) get away with it while every other Frenchmen gets to pay for it.
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Maybe they should each and every one show that they were in the Resistance. Then a special tax could be legislated to be charged those that had not resisted. That way the damages done the deported Jews could be paid compensated. And as I pointed out, $60 Millions is only symbolic and more a sign of contempt than anything else.
 
joG said:
Maybe they should each and every one show that they were in the Resistance. Then a special tax could be legislated to be charged those that had not resisted. That way the damages done the deported Jews could be paid compensated.
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Now that is more acceptable!

joG said:
And as I pointed out, $60 Millions is only symbolic and more a sign of contempt than anything else.
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I agree.

Well, if no one will take the $60 mill... [reaches hand]

;)
 
Shouldn't all nations have to pay the victims because of the Evian Conference? A lot of those Jews should never have been at the whim of a French fascist government.
 
AliHajiSheik said:
They weren't Japanese immigrants, they were American citizens many of which were born here. As for your interpretation of having done nothing:

From Wrong To Right: A U.S. Apology For Japanese Internment : Code Switch : NPR
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no, there is even a term for it. The first generation (born in japan) immigrants were imprisoned and never received compensation, or other forms of justice

this included for instance many who came to America to study while japan was yet to industrialize, going back to 1890s. Imagine your college kid did study abroad and was taken hostage and held in ghettos for years and that is basically the same thing
 
Ridiculous. Why on Earth should the French government pay anyone living today for something they never personally experienced, for which the French government wasn't even responsible? The country was under Nazi occupation at the time.
 
chromium said:
no, there is even a term for it. The first generation (born in japan) immigrants were imprisoned and never received compensation, or other forms of justice

this included for instance many who came to America to study while japan was yet to industrialize, going back to 1890s. Imagine your college kid did study abroad and was taken hostage and held in ghettos for years and that is basically the same thing
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You said nothing was done, I provided a source that contradicts what you said. Prove your statement that nothing was done.
 
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