Jews should get WWII property taxes back, says Amsterdam mayor

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Jews should get WWII property taxes back, says Amsterdam mayor

Jewish Amsterdammers who were charged ground rent for their properties over the years they spent in concentration camps or in hiding during World War II should get that money back, according to the city’s mayor.

In April, students discovered that hundreds of Jews were sent the bills when they returned to their homes after the war.

They should now get that money back plus interest, Eberhard van der Laan told KRO television programme Oog in Oog.

Every cent the council earned by being heartless or bureaucratic should be returned ‘and interest is part of that’, he said. -

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Apparently the Dutch have solved all their social problems if they're now focusing on things like this.

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Amsterdam to repay Holocaust survivors who faced bills for overdue property taxes after WWII

AMSTERDAM – Amsterdam says it will pay compensation to Jewish residents who fled or were forced from their homes during World War II — and returned to find overdue taxes and late payment fines waiting for them.

The city council says in Thursday's statement it will repay survivors or their families 820,000 euros ($1.1 million). It plans a wider investigation into unfair postwar charges.

Mayor Eberhard van der Laan said: "With the eyes of today, but also with the eyes of then, the city levying fines on war victims was formalistic and inappropriate."

A student, Charlotte van den Berg, found documentary evidence of the abusive practices in 2011 in city archives. Letters from Holocaust survivors complained that the city was charging them for property seized after their deportation to Nazi concentration camps.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/05/22/amsterdam-to-repay-holocaust-survivors-who-faced-bills-for-overdue-property/