They played an active part in outing, rounding up, beating, raping, killing, or otherwise mistreating Jews in their midst.
Kaunas, August 22 – Descendants of Europeans who participated in – and in some cases acted even without encouragement to perpetrate – massacres and abuses of Jews during and after the German invasions of the Second World War began submitting petitions to President Mahmoud Abbas’s administration to receive money that he disburses either to the killers of Jews or to the perpetrators’ families, if the perpetrators themselves die in the attempt.
The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of officials and citizens of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, France, Hungary, and other countries the Nazis occupied during various stretches from 1939-1945 who played an active part in identifying, rounding up, beating, raping, killing, or otherwise mistreating Jews in their midst – whether under orders of the Nazi occupiers or following their own inspiration – asked the Palestinian Authority this week to include them in the roster of Jew-killers that the PA awards lifetime payments, with the amount increasing commensurate with the number of Jews killed.
Attorneys for hundreds of residents of this Lithuanian city alone, where even before the Nazis entered in 1941, non-Jews rampaged through the city and brutalized Kaunas’s Jews, joined with representatives of thousands of other descendants of Nazi collaborators in a concerted effort to gain reward for their forebears’ endeavors that the PA now has the capacity to support. Payments began under Yasser Arafat and have increased under Abbas.
“It’s understandable that applying for the payments in the intervening decades was impracticable,” explained Jedd Wabne, an attorney for dozens of Polish applicants. “Soviet and Soviet-dominated governments of Eastern Europe not only neglected the Nazis’ treatment of Jews in particular, and they certainly did not want to allow for discussion of the ways in which their on people collaborated with the invader. So of course nothing like this could happen before the fall of Communism. But even after that, the patriotism inherent in the rebirth of those sovereign nations brings with it an unwillingness to confront the notion of locals abetting the Nazis. Only now, a generation later, does the natural antisemitism of Europe reemerge, and it’s just the time when the Palestinian Authority is paying out generously to those who kill Jews.”
That explanation holds for the countries of Eastern Europe, but less so for places such as France, which never felt the boot of USSR oppression – but which also boasts hundreds of new applicants for the program critics have dubbed Pay for Slay.
“I blame it on ennui,” shrugged Dran Cee, whose grandfather pointed out Jews to the Gestapo and looted the Jews’ possessions after the Jews were arrested for deportation to Auschwitz and extermination. “We are not Swiss or British. We do things when they feel proper, and the proper time feels like now.”
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