Algerian Compensation

From the DW:
"Germany to compensate Algerian Jewish Holocaust survivors"

Jews who lived in Algeria during the Vichy regime will receive compensation, said the Claims Conference. Algerian Jews were "one of the last" groups to be recognized by Germany, the organization's vice president told DW. The Claims Conference Hardship Fund on Monday announced that a new group of Jewish Holocaust survivors will be eligible for compensation from the Germany government. The group consists of Jews who lived in Algeria between July 1940 and November 1942. Those eligible for compensation will receive a one-time payment of €2,556 ($3,180), which the German government will begin paying out in July.  "Even at this late stage, it's very important both for the individuals, because it acknowledges what they went through, and in general, because it creates a historical record which will stand the test of time," Eric Schneider, who serves as executive vice president of the Claims Conference, told DW. "The further we get away from the events, I think there's the greater possibility of Holocaust revisionism … When the German government takes responsibility and acknowledges the event, then it makes it a lot harder to refute it." The Claims Conference, which represents Holocaust victims in negotiations for compensation from the German government, estimates that approximately 25,000 Algerian Jews living across the globe may be eligible for compensation. During World War II, Jews in Algeria — then a French colony — were targeted by the Vichy regime's racial laws. Vichy authorities confiscated Jewish property and stripped Jews of French citizenship in Algeria. "All these anti-Jewish measures were devised both in accordance with the anti-Semitic Vichy philosophy, and in order to gain the favor of the North African Muslim population," according to the Shoah resource center at the Yad Vashem memorial center. Nazi Germany, led by dictator Adolf Hitler, was responsible for perpetrating the Holocaust, which left millions of Jews and members of other ethnic and social groups dead. The Vichy regime governed the "Free Zone" in Nazi-occupied France during World War II and implemented anti-Semitic policies that included deporting Jews to death camps. While Jewish Algerian Holocaust survivors are "one of the last of the largest groups to be recognized," Schneider said challenges remain in negotiating compensation for survivors, including time constraints and the lack of a German government. "We estimate that there are 450,000 Nazi victims alive today. All our estimates show that 50 percent of them will have passed away in seven years," Schneider told DW, adding that some are struggling with poverty. "When you have a survivor who has been through everything survivor's went through and then they have to make a choice in their final years between medicine and food, that's just unacceptable to us." 

^ You would think that after 73 years Germany would have compensated all the different people it targeted during World War 2, but it seems every few years we learn they "missed this group" or "forgot that group." The Germans and their collaborators kept excellent records and so there is no reason that any group is left out of being compensated. The only reason I can see is Germany trying to pay off the more publicized victim and hoping that all the others will just remain silent - which sadly, many have for decades. This compensation is pretty minimal ($3,180) compared to the fear, harassment, attacks, imprisonment and torture they suffered for years under the Vichy French and the Germans. In my opinion, Germany and its collaborators, have gotten off to easily since they don't give any compensation to relatives of those that were murdered by them - only actual survivors.  ^

http://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-compensate-algerian-jewish-holocaust-survivors/a-42458534