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  • Congratulations on surviving Auschwitz, now here’s your tax bill

    04/25/2014 8:53:00 AM PDT · by DTA · 8 replies
    Euronews ^ | 2014-04-24
    Congratulations on surviving Auschwitz, now here’s your tax bill –Dutch intern reveals Amsterdam’s postwar shame Imagine you had survived one of the Nazi death camps, but on returning home found that you owed the city council back rents and taxes on the house the Nazis had stolen from you, and to add insult to injury, had to pay fines for late payment. < That is exactly what happened to 217 Amsterdam Jews, and now the city is considering compensating them . “They were completely expropriated. And then, after the Second World War, they were taxed for the period in which...