What is the point of giving a couple of thousand pounds to the children of the kindertransport?

And such a small amount? I would be inclined to tell them where to shove it!


www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6502977...-Nazis-children.html

This 'symbolic recognition of suffering' could hardly be described as compo

Virtually all the children lost their parents in concentration camps

And the children endured the the most harrowing experiences imaginable


Can you not see - the small sums of money are irrelevant?

Barney wrote:
This 'symbolic recognition of suffering' could hardly be described as compo

Virtually all the children lost their parents in concentration camps

And the children endured the the most harrowing experiences imaginable


Can you not see - the small sums of money are irrelevant?

You can recognise suffering in other ways than money.

I dont understand the modern way of giving money as a token of sympathy. (such as the 80 thousand donated to the Chester zoo fire. Why? Don't they have insurance? )

Besides, who doesn't already recognise the suffering? What exactly will it change?

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
What is the point of giving a couple of thousand pounds to the children of the kindertransport?

And such a small amount? I would be inclined to tell them where to shove it!


www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6502977...-Nazis-children.html

True Honey...and having to wait so long....thanks Herr Merkel!

In any event, the small monetary payment is actually not compensation at all.

The children were guaranteed £50 to pay for re-emigration - back to Germany - as the relocation to the UK was thought to be temporary.

Germany is simply now making good, on its guarantee - at the present day currency value.

Barney wrote:
In any event, the small monetary payment is actually not compensation at all.

The children were guaranteed £50 to pay for re-emigration - back to Germany - as the relocation to the UK was thought to be temporary.

Germany is simply now making good, on its guarantee - at the present day currency value.


It is interesting to know how they arrived at that figure, but it was negotiated through The claims conference, which administers compensation for Holocaust survivors, so it is bound to be viewed as compensation, even if technically not.

Almost all of the people who have contributed to the "token sum" have had nothing to do with the atrocity.
Neither have any of the government.
Why do we apologise and give money for things that were not our fault?

The way I see it, money as an apology is vulgar, and trivialises the harm caused.