А именно - at $240 billion to $330 billion.
JERUSALEM – An Israeli government report that claims to be the first of its kind has set material damage to the Jewish people during the Holocaust at $240 billion to $330 billion.
Although previous studies have estimated the value of looted Jewish property, the Israeli government calculation includes lost income and wages.
Some studies estimate that no more than 20 percent of the looted Jewish assets – both private and communal – were restored to their owners after the Holocaust. The restitution of private property, which accounted for at least 95 percent of the total plundered assets, "is the weakest link in the restitution process," the report said. "A great deal still needs to be done in this area."
More than $8 billion in one-time payments to Jews and non-Jews were negotiated in settlements from 1998 to 2001, and a substantial part was paid and distributed, the report says.
But this represents merely a small fraction of the Jewish material damage during the Holocaust, and "there is much to be done in order to achieve a measure of justice" for survivors and their heirs, the report said.
"Restitution can successfully be dealt with only by exceptional legal measures," the report said. "In most countries, special, fast, and simple legislation is badly needed."
At the beginning of 2004, 1,092,000 Holocaust survivors were still living worldwide, about half of them in Israel. About 10 percent of survivors die each year, the report said.
"Any systematic delay in establishing settlement and disbursement processes or resolving disputes is therefore not just another bureaucratic hurdle, but the difference between a dignified closing to a tragic period in their lives and unrequited sense of the permanent denial of justice; between assistance for the needs of old age and unabated suffering," the report said.
The restitution process has been under way since 1948.
Major milestones have included the signing of the 1952 reparations agreement between the Israeli and German governments in 1952; the 1998 agreement on the part of Swiss banks to pay $1.25 billion on dormant accounts held by Jewish Holocaust victims; and the U.S. government's $25.5 million settlement last month with the families of Hungarian Holocaust victims whose treasures were plundered by U.S. Army officers during World War II.
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Вот, прочитал в сегодняшней утренней газетке. За завтраком...
Честно говоря, был удивлён таким подходом к итогам WWII...
Белорусам тогда тоже можно насчитать несколько десятков миллиардов. Как минимум. За "невыплаченные зарплаты" и "упущенную выгоду"... Их тоже немало полегло в WWII. Что-то Лукашенко менжуется...
Эстонцы, по-моему, насчитали $30G ущерба от советской оккупации. Но при таком раскладе - им их все придётся Израилю отдать... Ведь прибалтийские СС-вцы - тоже принимали участие в "окончательном решении еврейского вопроса"...
Интересно, а каков срок давности? А то б армяне могли что с Турции стребовать. За геноцид начала прошлого века... Тем более Турции ныне в связи со вступлением в ЕС - так легко не откреститься.
Помнится с год назад афроамериканцы пытались получить какие-то деньги за рабство. Чего-то ничего не слышно больше об этом.
А вообще, у меня вопрос, к тем кто мож знает. Это что, реальные требования с реальными перспективами? Или просто израильский PR - типа показать в каком неоплатном долгу весь мир перед евреями?
Я представляю, если все жертвы всех конфликтов - начнут считать свои "невыплаченные зарплаты" и "упущенные выгоды"...