How much holocaust reparations has Germany paid to how many survivors?
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Aaron Richards
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How much holocaust reparations has Germany paid to how many survivors?
The reason I'm making this thread is because my knowledge on this topic is (as of yet) minimal, as I only concern myself with what happened during WW2 rather than politics later. But I'm getting different figures. To begin with, the Luxemburger Abkommen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparatio ... st_Germany
...states that between 1953 and 1966, Germany paid 3 billion Marks to Israel.
Which, using the average 4.15 Marks to a dollar exchange rate during the late 50s as a mean, see http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/mar ... htm#tables
This translates to 722,891,566 US dollars, essentially less than 1 billion US dollars.
Now the question is what happened later?
Here are some newspaper sources stating Germany has paid 89 billion US dollars total in holocaust reparation money:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-i ... survivors/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/world ... ctims.html
Did I miss the relevant article on wiki where the total is presented? If so, kindly link me to it.
Deniers have been using overblown figures (as usual) speaking about trillions of dollars, or millions of survivors getting paid, all lies obviously, but I'd like some clarification, thanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparatio ... st_Germany
...states that between 1953 and 1966, Germany paid 3 billion Marks to Israel.
Which, using the average 4.15 Marks to a dollar exchange rate during the late 50s as a mean, see http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/mar ... htm#tables
This translates to 722,891,566 US dollars, essentially less than 1 billion US dollars.
Now the question is what happened later?
Here are some newspaper sources stating Germany has paid 89 billion US dollars total in holocaust reparation money:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-i ... survivors/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/world ... ctims.html
Did I miss the relevant article on wiki where the total is presented? If so, kindly link me to it.
Deniers have been using overblown figures (as usual) speaking about trillions of dollars, or millions of survivors getting paid, all lies obviously, but I'd like some clarification, thanks.
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Re: How much holocaust reparations has Germany paid to how many survivors?
. . . we need Mr Muehlenkamp! . . .
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Re: How much holocaust reparations has Germany paid to how many survivors?
Aaron, here is where we talked about this:
http://www.skepticforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=25948&hilit=Reparations
http://www.skepticforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=25948&hilit=Reparations
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Re: How much holocaust reparations has Germany paid to how many survivors?
There’s a link in there to AHF where Roberto discusses this.
Asked to explain why they hate Jews, anti-Semites contradict themselves. Jews are always showing off; they are hermetic and secretive. They will not assimilate; they assimilate only too well. They are too religious; they are too materialistic, and a threat to religion. They are uncultured; they have too much culture. They avoid manual work; they work too hard. They are miserly; they are ostentatious spenders. They are inveterate capitalists; they are born Communists. And so on.