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France agrees to US-brokered deal on compensation for Holocaust deportees
Associated Press
Published: 05.12.14, 18:33
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1. Frances train wreck continues
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!!   (12.06.14)
Europe didn't have its fill of dead Jews in WW11 so, here they go again. What a dreadful, obnoxious tribe of unashamed bigots and anti semites. Besides being known cowards and allies with Hitler, they continue to run themselves into a wall with these cheap BS. BUILD MORE BABY !!!
2. SNCF compensation
Tony ,   London UK   (12.07.14)
My uncle was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz in 1942.The documents I have state that he was arrested by the French Police. Many French people denounced their Jewish neighbours, they were very complicit in ridding their country of Jews.We cannot expect gentiles to love or even like us, but that does not mean they should send Jews to certain death!
3. To: All the nay-sayers
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.09.14)
Especially Facebook Leidner and Freeman -- I'd like to know if you grew up in a home with Holocaust-survivor parents. Do you remember the ceaseless nightmares? Do you remember wondering why everybody else in your class at school had grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, but you did not? The Holocaust is an event that, if repeated, will signify an end to civilization. Nazism was not civilized. And those who suffered in the Holocaust -- why on earth should their victimizers get off scot-free with nothing more than a shrug of the shoulders? Six million Jews died merely for the "crime" of being Jewish. Any entity, individual or organization that fostered the massacre of Jews is highly accountable. There IS no statute of limitations on murder. And the French, like it or not, are at the forefront of the new violent anti-Semitism. And the French show precious little remorse. I'm not interested in a phony self-serving declaration of remorse. "I'm sorry" just doesn't cut it. It's an insult. The SNCF must be made to pay, and pay dear, for their collaboration in the murder of innocent souls, simply because they were Jewish. The SNCF must be made to pay, and pay dear, for the traumatized survivors -- most of whom were children. The French are guilty of war crimes. I will not settle for less than full reparations for the victims of French bloodthirst. Sooner or later, everyone is held to account. The French have a very, very deep debt to pay. It was, after all, the French gendarmes that loaded Jews -- beleaguered under whips and chains -- who are guilty of war criminal acts; it is the French railroads that carried innocent Jews -- many of them children -- to their deaths. I know that the French are largely a bloodthirsty lot. I know the history of the French Revolution. The French affection for pure carnage is clear. But some of the Jewish victims of French bloodlust managed to survive. They deserve justice. Even at the cost of some embarrassment to the French. Who cares if the French are embarrassed? Are they not solely responsible for the deaths of thousands upon thousands of innocent Jews? The French called the tune; comes now the time to pay the piper.
4. To No.3.
Bertram ,   London, UK.   (12.10.14)
You are absolutely right - no-one who has not grown up in a home with Holocaust-survivor parents - as you clearly have - can know what you have described. Furthermore, no-one can dispute your observations Nazism and civilisation. And yes - those responsible for the slaughter of innocent people should pay for their crimes with no statute of limitations. All I ask is that you do not exploit your justifiable emotions to 'over-egg the pudding'. A wholesale attack on 'the French' does not reinforce your case. On the contrary, it detracts from it, since you are surely aware that French individuals rank among the highest number of 'the Righteous Among the Nations'. At the same time, 75,000 - a relatively small proportion compared with other countries - of the pre-War Jewish population of France of 330,000 were sent to the death camps.
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