It's a 10-line story, which started out of BILD (the German newspaper) this morning and begs questions.
Every month....Germany funnels 787,000 Euro out of the country, to 2,033 individuals listed by the German government on disability. The 2,033 folks.....live beyond the border of Germany.
So, BILD lays it out....some (but they never tell you the number) are former Nazi associates or collaborators....from the nation of Belgium. How many? Unknown. It might be ten....it might be 100.
Why this came up? Well....the Belgium government kinda wandered into this topic and discovered that a number of Belgium folks are getting this German check each month, and it begged for reasons to explain why. The names of the Belgium folks? Well....that's not totally known either.
Could all 2,033 folks be ex-Nazi helpers? I doubt this.
Does Chancellor Merkel even know about the 2,033 folks? I doubt that.
Does the head of the Ministry of Finance for Germany know about the payments? I doubt that.
Somewhere down the line....there's some 60-year old German guy in some department that only handles disabled non-Germans and he's got this cabinet with 2,033 folders in it and it's probably his full-time job....monitoring the group and accounting for their money. 'Hans' (my name for the guy) probably has had this job for thirty years and quietly done this in an efficient way....just like his mentor and former boss handled it.
My humble guess is that one of these disability folks passed away and the Belgium government was trying to sort out who was paying this old guy pension-like money, and why. And eventually, it led back to Berlin.
So Nazi stuff still going on in 2019? Yeah, and it's dwindling every year to a lesser number.
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