Forbes carries an article that a group representing the children of holocaust survivors have filed a lawsuit against Germany to pay for psychiatric care. Given what Germany has done to make reparations over the last 60 years - when will enough be enough.
2007-07-17 00:04:56 · 23 answers · asked by Seán O 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I think I need to clarify. No one suggested we forget the Nazi period in history. I am speaking solely of monetary payment and 21st century Germany. Thus far Germany has spent 60 billion since the 1950's. Furthermore as someone said - this money is for Jewish people only - but I understand there were a lot of other people murdered in the camps - why are they excluded?
2007-07-17 00:22:50 · update #1
It appears I need to clarify - I am not German. I don't, nor have I ever lived in Germany!
2007-07-17 22:40:01 · update #2
Ahmadinejad said the same thing !
2007-07-17 00:11:36 · answer #1 · answered by Tony 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I always kinda thought the opposite. What I mean is Germany and the Nazi party tried to take over the world, they killed thousands of people and had a real issue with the jews living in Germany. They killed and experimented on humans in crual and unusual ways. They had to be stopped by the rest of the world.
After doing all that, everyone still loves the Germans and its like it never happened.
So to me, considering what occured, and what they did I thought they got over easy. That goes for the japaneese too.
Plus I don't have the energy to hate them; I wasn't even around then and niether where most of the germans alive today. We should remember and be alert to this kind of national pride that can make a nation think it is better than others and more deserving because it is stronger.
Oh and to address the monetary issue. Money requested today in my opinion is out of greed not reparations.
2007-07-17 00:30:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it's simple really Germany will be left alone when the last survivours of WWII in Europe die and/or a new fatted calf found somewhere else till then you germans will just have to live with it.
Bad luck I know for the generations born after the war but that's just the way the jug's broken for you.
Anyhow Germany should be free of all payments in the next 20 or 30 yrs so not long now.
2007-07-17 06:52:58 · answer #3 · answered by Einheart 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We should NEVER forget, because if we forget the horror we forget the lessons...
That said, a line needs to be drawn, the vast majority of Germans were born since 1945 and therefore are being punished for something they had no part in. The vast majority of those who were not, did not do anything except go along with it even though they knew it was wrong - and cant we draw parallels with people guilty of exactly the same thing today?
I fear the endless reparations and desire for humiliation will become counter productive, if it has not already
2007-07-17 00:28:38 · answer #4 · answered by Caffeine Fiend 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some groups , countries and cultures that will find it difficult to ever forget . It is understandable that if you lose a whole generation of your family to indescribable horrific murder it makes it impossible .to forget.
However this modern rush to seek financial compensation for every little indiscretion annoys me . No matter how legal experts parcel this up ( no win no fee ) they are only in this to make money and it causes even more heartbreak to all parties .
There are occasions when financial compensation should be awarded , but the whole issue is now way out of control .
2007-07-17 00:22:02 · answer #5 · answered by Scobill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see what you mean. Britain has a population bloodline that is steeped in the rampage/rape/torture/genocidal invaders and settlers of vikings, roman empires and powerful tyrants (Henry VIII, etc) not forgetting our own wartime minister Churchill, who suffered from manic depression and sent many thousands of men to an unnecessary death at the Gallipoli landings during world war 1.
Any idealogical belief becomes a selectively forgettable series of evil events when you have the people of the present looking back and saying "I'm not capable of that". Compensation only serves to keep the dead from dying and hypocrisy has evolved into a clever guise of finger-pointing at an international scale.
2007-07-17 00:32:04 · answer #6 · answered by Raging Tranny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought they have, and the gov's have even sanctioned for Germany to be whole again,,,,,,I don't know if the lawsuits were filed from here, but Calif sure has a ton of them pending......lol
Lawsuits are like a runny nose, you just can't get rid of them quick enough.......lol
2007-07-17 00:08:35 · answer #7 · answered by kaliroadrager 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And I guess that group represents ONLY children of JEWISH Holocaust survivors. Anyway, in this case, I think enough is enough. Otherwise, Jews would have to pay compensations to descendants of slaves who were enslaved by some of their ancestors.
2007-07-17 00:12:21 · answer #8 · answered by Avner Eliyahu R 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think there will be a time when enough is enough. People may forgive but they will never forget and for good reason. If we forget, then when stand the chance of repeating history.
2007-07-17 00:13:48 · answer #9 · answered by GirlsDeadMonster 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never. The US abolished slavery in 1865, after a war that killed over half a million people, and African Americans are still trying to get reparations. . . . for something that happened not to their parents, or their grandparents, but to their great, great, great + grandparents.
2007-07-17 00:14:09 · answer #10 · answered by joby10095 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When time has ground the holocaust into inconsiquence or until people stop hating on the grounds of race (except the french who deserve it )
2007-07-19 03:24:37 · answer #11 · answered by derek m 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋