| Neutral experts calculate the total German reparation payments to be more than $ 100 billion, not about NIS 100 billion. Taking all German financial reparations as well as aid to Israel into account, the total sum is much greater and surpasses US aid to Israel. These funds were paid under numerous programs, i.e. reparations, pensions, social, scientific, military, cultural aid. Very little arrived directly with the Holocaust survivors. The German administration does not want take the responsibility to ensure proper distribution of these payments out of fear to be labeled anti-Israel. |
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