Posted on 01/03/2012 1:25:35 PM PST by ColdOne
Germany’s national railway has hired a strategic communications and outreach firm to lobby Congress on legislation that could clear the way for lawsuits from Holocaust survivors.
Strategy XXI Group will work for Deutsche Bahn AG, a railway company “wholly owned by the German government,” on the Holocaust Rail Justice Act, according to Justice Department records. The railway will pay $45,000 over the three-month span of the contract.
The firm has been hired to“[f]acilitate meetings and conversations with members of Congress and staff related to legislation that may affect principal. This relates to H.R. 1193 and S. 634,” the registration states.
The House and Senate bills referenced in the registration would allow U.S. district courts to hear civil cases against foreign national railways for their role in moving victims to concentration camps. Although Deutsche Bahn AG is not mentioned in the legislation, the language in the bill seems broad enough to apply to the German railway.
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The holocaust was 70 years ago. It didn’t happen in the US. Very few of the perps are still alive. What roll does the US congress have in this? Is this just a Dem gift to trial lawyers?
I don’t know why the US would target anyone; Roosevelt was asked to bomb the rails to the camps but decided in favor of military targets.
Unhappy business. Sad that people want to keep it alive.
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Glad some lobbists are making money, three letter word, J-O-B-S as our VP would say.
I don't know to what extent these railways, which would have been better off going bankrupt after the war, do business in the US. Seems like standing could be an issue since I can't imagine there are that many survivors in the US to make a claim. But they deserve the bad publicity for their eager cooperation with evil, they including the government of France.
It’s sad that some want to forget about it.
Thanks ColdOne.
well, no one is talking about forgetting about this, but a lawsuit after 70 years against a corporation that was destroyed and reformed isn’t really much more than a gift for lawyers. it helps none of the victims.
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