Posted on 04/03/2013 9:58:37 AM PDT by Nachum
THE HAGUE (JTA) The City of Amsterdam fined hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors for failing to pay taxes while they were in hiding or in concentration camps.
The affair was exposed in an article in Het Parool, a local daily, on March 30. Many of the houses in question were confiscated and used by members of the NSB Dutch Nazi party while the Jewish owners were in hiding or in camps.
The city went after survivors as late as 1947, the report said. Other Dutch municipalities waived such debts, Het Parool reported. The following year the city agreed to reimburse half of what it charged to some Jews who were taxed in absentia. The citys archives contain 342 requests for reimbursement, Het Parool reported.
The documents about this taxation were discovered by Charlotte van den Berg, a 23-year-old university student. She said she found them bundled with an elastic band in the archive section of one of the citys departments while conducting research on Jewish home owners.
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There is no such thing as objective right or objective wrong.
A truly brilliant insight.
Ten million I guess is just a statistic to you. Never ever forget. Maybe if it happened to you or your relatives you might have a different outlook but I doubt it.
Not to mention what took place in Lithuania and the Ukraine. I hear ya’.
They interviewed some Dutch Communist who gave himself a big pat on the back for that.
(of course Communists don't do anything different)
It was the most American/British polity in continental Europe. It should have served as a model for other nations - but it was destroyed by tyrants instead.
Oh, one hears plenty of things about the rest of Europe now. Things have devolved very much for Jews all across Europe. Very frightening for Jews there. :(
The French Resistance was full of Commies as well.
While it is a Mystery on why we all don't let these hard working people into our nation, Sadly our Leftists Masters do not want a Productive Class, they want Parasite Classes al la, South American immigration here and Asian immigration in the U.K.
I have a good friend who is Lithuanian and she HATES communists and communism, that won't work out well with our leftist overlords.
May the Lord bless the Polish people and their nation.
(Remember the Soviets and Nazi's entered the War side by side, With the Invasion of Poland!)
Indeed. As was the case with many in this country as well.
Amen to that.
Good G-d those people are scum!
LOL! O-M-G, when will the INsanity end!?
That would be awesome, but you and I both know that it just isn't true.
In reality; appalling, inhuman, banal acts of Government are becoming more topical every year.
Ah, anti-semitism still alive and well in Holland — and I wonder if dhimmitude has any influence in this back taxes quest?
and will they send the bill for Anne Frank’s family to the current Anne Frank Museum? And if the museum refuses to pay, will they close it down and sell the building and furnishings to the highest bidder from Saudi Arabia?
GreyFriar: the article is about a taxation mis-event that occurred in 1947 and that is coming to light now.
It’s relevant to our modern condition, but it’s not current.
Obviously I didn’t see that in the limited quotation provided; but I’m not surprised if some Dutchmen might resurrect the idea.
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