Cendrillon Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 https://uk.news.yahoo.com/france-pay-60-mn-us-nazi-rail-deportations-201615311.html#TeUITosPlease can someone correct the link above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Note, it is the French State and not the SNCF who are paying this money as they have always denied their role and refused to pay. They maintain that the wagons used to transport people were German territory when used for that purpose and hence not threir responsibility.Note too that this agreement comes only at a time when there are juicy rail contracts coming up in some US states which the SNCF wants to bid for but had been banned from doing so until it sorted out the compensation issue. Such states are Maryland (I think) and California.Frankly, I find the whole deal disgusting money grubbing opportunism on he part of the French government, especially as those transportees still living or thair families within France have been denied compensation by the SNCF and the government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 I know the SNCF have always denied this, that the trains were commandeered by the invaders and so they had no control over this happening.Yes, it is politics, and the SNCF already have some very juicy rail contracts in other countries and want more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 [quote user="Cendrillon"]https://uk.news.yahoo.com/france-pay-60-mn-us-nazi-rail-deportations-201615311.html#TeUITosPlease can someone correct the link above.[/quote]Here you go:[url]http://yhoo.it/1yqThSQ[/url]In no way denying what happened or that it should be forgotten but at the same time just when does a current generation get to break free from the sins of it's antecedents ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSV Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 [quote user="AnOther"]In no way denying what happened or that it should be forgotten but at the same time just when does a current generation get to break free from the sins of it's antecedents ?[/quote]or cease to benefit from any compensation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clark Kent II Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 [quote user="AnOther"]In no way denying what happened or that it should be forgotten but at the same time just when does a current generation get to break free from the sins of it's antecedents ?[/quote] I agree with these sentiments. It is almost seventy years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, that is more than two generations ago. I wonder if the states concerned have statutes of limitations for criminal activities?Incidentally, on the wall of the railway station in Penne d'Agenais is a plaque stating that many French citizens were transported to the camps on trains from that place. I shall see if I can find a photograph. EDITIt seems that this site's lily-livered software is trying to rewrite history by eliminating references to the standard abbreviation of the German ruling wartime political organisation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Jihadis.Just testing....to see if, like so many other aspects of the software, it's out of date.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 There were many companies who collaborated with he N...s Here's one link - quite old ( 2008). Several have paid compensation, and many are still thriving today:http://www.11points.com/News-Politics/11_Companies_That_Surprisingly_Collaborated_With_the_Nazis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 [quote user="Clark Kent II"]Incidentally, on the wall of the railway station in Penne d'Agenais is a plaque stating that many French citizens were transported to the camps on trains from that place. I shall see if I can find a photograph.[/quote]Just in case you don't find it, here are pictures of the railway station at Le Vernet-d'Ariège, and a closeup of the plaques there, taken this summer.There are huge posters on the station building with photos of only some of victims transported from the camp just across the road (the former camp guards' quarters alongside the road are now homes), together with a cattle truck similar to those used.The site of the camp, and the small cemetery for the few not deported but who died in the camp, is on the D820 just north of the town of Le Vernet.[URL=http://s857.photobucket.com/user/nomoss/media/Posted%20on%20Forums/IMG_0230_zps061f6244.jpg.html][IMG]http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/ab131/nomoss/Posted%20on%20Forums/IMG_0230_zps061f6244.jpg[/IMG][/URL][URL=http://s857.photobucket.com/user/nomoss/media/Posted%20on%20Forums/228LeVernet_zps21a04eb7.jpg.html][IMG]http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/ab131/nomoss/Posted%20on%20Forums/228LeVernet_zps21a04eb7.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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