France Holocaust

FRENCH GOVERNMENT FINALLY AGREES TO COMPENSATE HOLOCAUST VICTIMS TRANSPORTED ON FRENCH TRAINS…….

That it took this long is yet another crime in itself.

Holocaust: France to pay US victims $60 million

Holocaust: France to pay US victims $60 million

France to pay American families $60 million damages for SNCF’s role in transporting Jews to death camps. Photo: AFP

Published: 05 Dec 2014 17:00 GMT+01:00

The United States and France have sealed a landmark deal to compensate Americans and foreigners deported to Nazi death camps on French rail transport, a French diplomat announced Friday.

The deal, which has been long in the making, should now open the way to allow French rail firm SNCF to bid on major contracts in the US state of Maryland.

 “The US and France have reached a historic agreement for substantial compensation in connection with the deportation from France during the Holocaust,” US negotiator Stuart Eizenstat said.

“This is another measure of justice for the harms of one of history’s darkest eras,” he told reporters, adding it was a good example of the close US-French partnership.

Several thousands people could be eligible for compensation, including nationals from Israel and Canada as well as Americans who were deported from France to the death camps during World War II.

News of the agreement came in simultaneous press briefings in Washington by both the US and French negotiators on Friday.

During the occupation of France by Germany, the Nazi regime deported almost 76,000 Jews to concentration camps in French freight cars between 1942 and 1944.

Only around 3,000 survived.

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