Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

human nature would easily understand because the build-up to it was
perfectly timed:
Israel to seek another 1b euros Holocaust reparations from Germany
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz will demand between 450 million to 1
billion euros in reparations from Germany on behalf of Jews forced into
slave labor during the Holocaust, it emerged on Sunday.
Minister Steinitz will reportedly present German government with the
demand on behalf of 30,000 Israeli survivors of forced labor in wartime
ghettos, during a joint session scheduled to take place in early 2010 in
Berlin.
Israeli officials estimate that according to a ghetto workers act passed by
the German parliament in 2002, all of the 30,000 living forced labor
survivors are entitled to a retroactive payment of approximately 15,000
euros each.
However, Finance Ministry officials say that according to the German
government’s calculations, the one-time payment is larger than that
estimated by Israel, and reaches a total of 1 billion euros.
In addition to the one-time payment, the survivors are also entitled to a
monthly allowance, which adds up to around 100 million euros a year.
In September, Germany’s top court dismissed a claim yesterday for the
return of land seized by the Nazis from its Jewish owner in 1933.
Jewish businessman Adolf Sommerfeld, who owned nearly 80 percent of
a company building a housing estate in the Berlin suburb of
Kleinmachnow, was beaten up and shot at by Nazi thugs and fled
Germany in 1933, the year the Nazis came to power.
The Nazis later sold the homes to their occupants, who are now the
owners. Seizures of property from Jews continued through the 1930s,
culminating in the Holocaust.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1136383.html
If that was not enough, there was more to come two days before the sign
was stolen, on 16 December, and Haaretz had reported it thus:
Germany to pay half the cost of restoring Auschwitz memorial.
DPA, Last update - 06:50 17/12/2009
Germany committed itself Wednesday to paying half the cost of restoring
the leaky buildings and crumbling personal possessions of the former Nazi
death camp Auschwitz.
The premiers of Germany’s 16 federal states and Chancellor Angela
Merkel agreed in Berlin to contribute 60 million euros, saying Auschwitz
must be maintained as a monument to condemn the Holocaust and Nazi
reign of terror.
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