Holocaust Victims from Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have asked the Deutsche Bahn to pay them 445 million euros in compensation for deporting people to concentration camps during World War II.
The Holocaust victims believe the German national railway company is the moral and historical successor to Deutsche Reichsbahn, the railway company of Nazi Germany.
"Deutsche Reichsbahn took money for every kilometer of the journeys which took us to the camps for elimination. Deutsche Reichsbahn gained from its role in the mass atrocity," says a document, signed by former prisoners of the concentration camps at a joint press conference in Poland.
Holocaust victims expect humanitarian aid from Deutsche Bahn to help cover medicine and care costs. They believe this compensation is not just a matter of material charge, but of taking moral responsibility.
The successor company Deutsche Bahn has so far refused to pay compensation directly, claiming that it supports a foundation to assist forced labor victims.
WARSAW, March 26 (RIA Novosti Novosti)
