Germany pays pensions to the citizens of Belgium who fought in the ranks of the Nazis, without telling neither the names nor the amounts of pension benefits, said on Wednesday the TV channel RTL.
According to him, during the Second world war on the side of Nazi Germany fought several thousand Belgians. “They are paid a military pension in accordance with the decree (Adolf) Hitler, who considered these fighters as German citizens, so they get a pension as a German military”, — quotes RTL the words of the President of the “Group Memory” that unites the former prisoners of war and deported by the Nazis, Peter Field Betina.
He argues that since Germany did not disclose the names of those who fought in the ranks of the Nazis citizens of Belgium, taxes on the pension payments they are not paid. In turn, the Belgians, who were forcibly deported by the Nazis to forced labor in Germany, receive from the authorities compensation payments, which are taxable in Belgium.
Today, the RTL notes, it is difficult to calculate how many former Belgian Wehrmacht soldiers or their widows receive a war pension from Germany.
The TV channel reminds, that at the end of the Second world war in Belgium for military cooperation with the Nazis were subjected to the courts about 500 thousand of the Belgians. Have been convicted about 30 thousand of the Flemish and about 27 thousand Walloons and brusselse
