Belgian Lawmakers Call For End To Nazi Collaborators` Pensions
(WorldNews Belgium)

Belgian lawmakers want Germany to stop paying war pensions to Nazi collaborators, saying the payments are a contradiction of the European Union`s founding principles, NBC News reports. The Belgian parliament`s Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution Tuesday calling on its government to ask Germany to stop providing the tax-free money. It also stressed the `injustice` of such payments because victims of Nazism do not receive similar allowances. In the aftermath of World War II, about 80,000 Belgians were convicted of collaborating with Adolf Hitler`s SS and of committing war crimes while the country was occupied by the Nazis, according to lawmakers. However, some of these people...