FRANCE has agreed to pay in EUR60 million (US$74.6 million)
in reparations for the role its state-owned railway, Societe nationale des chemins de
fer (SNCF) played in taking Jews to the death camps in World War II.
The railway found that its US ambitions to bid on land
for high-speed rail concessions, had been adversely affected by its denial of
responsibility for transporting Jews to concentration camps between 1942 and
1944.
Each surviving deportee who now has US nationality can
expect to receive US$100,000 from the fund to compensate Jewish prisoners of US
nationality who were deported on SNCF trains, Lloyd's Loading List.
SNCF argues its trains were requisitioned by the German
occupation forces, and that the railway's role was limited to driving trains to
the border.
Source : HKSG.
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