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The International Federation of Resistance – Antifascists (FIR) expresses its support for the demand for payment of German reparations and World War II reparations, in a recent bulletin which characteristically characterizes that “in the end the debts are actually paid off “.
The federation, which is co-host of resistance groups from 27 European countries and Israel, notes in its bulletin that the German civil service and government, while still paying pensions to SS members and associates in Belgium and the Baltic states, appear to “extremely assertive” towards the “valid claims” of the families of the victims and the fascist persecutions, while trying to beautify their image, through institutions such as the foundation “Memoria, Responsabilidad y Futuro”, which compensates the people who have been forced to work by the Nazis.
“Journalists and historians criticize the ‘Memoria, Responsabilidad y Futuro’ foundation, saying that the rest of the foundation’s funds are being used to create an ‘industry of memory’, known as the European Culture of Memory, which is supported and controlled by the political leadership of the Federal Republic of Germany. “In this way, the German Federal Government and the Memory, Responsibility and Future Foundation are promoting, for example, bilateral ‘meetings’ and ‘youth organizations’ to avoid further compensation claims. “.
In promoting the FIR announcement, Germany’s National Council for the Settlement of Debt to Greece comments: “FIR reveals to the German Federal Government, through youth institutions and organizations, to create a common ‘culture of memory’ and promote a false reconciliation between the Greek and German peoples. These schemes of the German federal government, as complained by the FIR, are aimed at preventing the ODG from paying German debts. This is a complete coincidence with the opinion of the National Council for Debt Claims of Germany with Greece and the Network of Witness Municipalities, which have opposed the Hellenic-German Youth Foundation, “the Council notes in its announcement.
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