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Almost 70 years have passed since the end of World War II., but that hasn't stopped Germany from agreeing to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in extra compensation to the Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.

That's quite a different scene from what is happening on this side of the globe.

Kim Hyun-bin reports.

The German government is taking additional measures to apologize to the victims of the Holocaust.

The Jewish Claims Conference, which negotiates compensation for victims and their descendents, said on Wednesday that Germany will pay a little over one billion U.S. dollars to the victims over a four-year period.

The compensation will be dispersed to over 56-thousand surviving victims in 46 countries.

A German finance ministry spokesman confirmed the details of the compensation and said it was all the more impressive at a time of budget austerity in Germany.

The Jewish community thanked Germany for its continued commitment to fulfill its historic obligations to the victims of the Nazis.

Since 1952, the German government has paid out over 70 billion U.S. dollars in compensation to help surviving victims.

The Claims Conference and the German government plans to further widen their scope.

The conference said the two sides agreed on increasing pension programs for Jews who lived in the open ghettos and children who had to witness their parents being murdered during the Holocaust.

Asian history analysts say Germany is considering all options and taking caution when dealing with the Holocaust victims while, in contrast, the Japanese government continues to make distasteful remarks and fails to reflect back on its previous wrongdoings.

Kim Hyun-bin, Arirang News.


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