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| 'Jewish war victims have had enough compensation' French court says |
| 2009-02-17 |
| The French State was responsible for deporting Jews during the Second World War, the top judicial authority ruled for the first time yesterday, but it dismayed families of victims by declaring that they had already been compensated. The decision by the Council of State, the final arbiter on civil law matters, made formal a doctrine that has been accepted by successive governments since 1995. It was advising on a case brought by Madeleine Hoffman-Glemane, 75, one of hundreds of victims who have sued recently for damages over their arrests and deportation during the Nazi occupation from 1940 to 1944. The council called for a "solemn recognition of the responsibility of the State". France was "responsible for damages caused by actions which did not result from the occupiers' direct orders but facilitated deportation from France of people who were victims of anti-Semitic persecution", it said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 Yes indeed, those greedy Jews want more. My mother and my grandmother got so much compensation from the German government that they could buy a cup of coffee and a sandwich once a month. My grandfather got nothing, because he died a few years after the war. I rather imagine the French government, insisting as it always has that it held no responsibility for the actions of those Vichy swine during the war, was rather less generous to the Jewish citizens it shipped off to German concentration camps. But no matter, everyone will accept that it is only the greed of that small remnant still living that caused them to sue for compensation. Agreed, the descendants of the victims should get nothing in the way of compensation from the various governments involved, nor am I aware of any movement to get us compensation. But the actual victims, especially those who have gotten nothing except further humiliation thus far... All you clever people who posted in this thread, please tell me: how much compensation have Madame Madeleine Hoffman-Glemane, 75 and her hundreds of greedy Jewish fellows actually received from France since the end of the war, that you declare is quite, quite enough? I myself suspect if they got anything at all, it was rather less than the cost of a monthly sandwich and cup of coffee. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-02-17 17:30 |
| #6 Same story here in Canada with the Natives and land claims and 'opression of culture'.... By the way, 'true' native culture from before the 'white man' came used to be that if didn't work you starved. There were no nanny-state programs back then. It was work your butt off to survive or you die. Since I come from British/Spanish/French lines, how about I find a shopping mall in London, Paris or Madrid and claim it was built on my ancestral lands, without my consent, and demand compensation? |
| Posted by: Chemist 2009-02-17 12:26 |
| #5 Keep in mind that not just Jews were slaves. I was in Norway 20 years ago for an Air National Guard deployment. The aircraft were deployed in a cavern complex cut into a solid rock mountain by Norwegian prisoners. Many died in that mountain and the locals still did not like Germans AT ALL. Their Fathers and Grandfathers died in there. That being said, time to move on. This court case is just greed. |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-02-17 12:18 |
| #4 well it's about time for african americans in the US yelling for reparations from slavery too but do you think it is going too and none of these ppl where ever slaves in the first place unlike the jews of europe who were |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-02-17 10:55 |
| #3 Well, Alex that's why the special interest groups still throw out the words 'slavery' or 'segregation' to get resources and power over others several generations removed from those times and regardless of those who in the group targeted for emotional blackmail who's ancestors 'gave their last full measure of devotion' to end the practices. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-02-17 08:23 |
| #2 There comes a time when this has to stop, it was terrible what happened but what in another 100 years people are going to be still trying to claim something |
| Posted by: Alex 2009-02-17 03:12 |
| #1 Well come on, how much more do they fricking want? Reminds me of that quote from Booker T. Washington about professional grievance-mongers. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-02-17 01:35 |