Ideal(?!) solution to delayed forced-labour compensation payments

[Iludium Phosdex]

A friend of mine (name deleted for obvious reasons), in noticing an item on
this week's "People and Politics" broadcast on DWtv vis-a-vis the delays
being
encountered by surviving forced labourers of the Nazi era in receipt of
compensation payments, has what may perhaps be a better solution to the
dilemma:

Videlicet, having a portion of the compensation payments in the form of
shares
in such companies as used them for forced labour during the Nazi regime as
would be made out to said labourers or their estates; the better, I am told,
to maybe encourage such victims of Nazi forced-labour projects at their most
crude and banal to have a voice for once in the affairs of such companies as
forcibly employed them during the Nazi regime all along.

Encompassing not only the original companies, but any such as would become
successors to the original such by merger or otherwise. Precedence would be
given to such companies whose services were used directly or indirectly by
the
Nazi regime in furtherance or forced- or slave-labour projects during same
(1933-45), including subcontracting of work to concentration camps or
prisoner-of-war such, whose shares are traded on the Deutsche Borse AG in
Frankfurt (and may also have ADR shares traded in New York).

Said shares would be fully transferrable to the estates of such forced
labourers, with the full right to sell or transfer to other entities, and
the
right to receive dividends as the companies may issue on same.

Naturally, among the companies as would be affected would be the likes of:

*Siemens

*Bayer (as successor to IG Farben)

*BASF (as successor to IG Farben)

*Volkswagenwerk

*AEG Telefunken

*Continental Tire

*Adam Opel-Werke

*DaimlerChrysler (as successor to Daimler-Benz)

Preferably, the shares as are thus issued would be in such companies as
clearly used the services in a forced-labourer capacity under the Nazi
regime,
based on records as can be thereby produced.

What you may think, I know not.... however, I think such may be worth some
serious discussion as a way to approach the issue over how best to
compensate
Nazi-era forced or slave labourers still waiting for compensation, and their
estates.

sincerely,
ILUDIUM PHOSDEX
(die egte artikel--aanvaar geen plaasvervangers)

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