Germany struggles to stop Nazi war payment suspicions
A Belgian bid to stop Berlin from paying pensions to alleged Nazi collaborators has exposed a cloud of confusion and suspicion – including in Germany – over payments still made to 2,000 people worldwide.
The controversial law in question is known innocuously as the Federal German War Victims’ Assistance Act, or the “Bundesversorgungsgesetz”, but tabloid-style Bild daily calls it “Hitler’s pensions”.
The debate surrounding the law exploded again on February 20th when the Belgian parliament voted on a resolution calling for the end of such payments to 18 people in the country.
The outcry was the latest surrounding the state payments, which over the decades have been believed to have benefited not just Nazi collaborators but even Waffen SS soldiers.
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