Belgium concern as WW2 Nazis 'get German pensions'

By BBC News, June 9, 2016 

A Belgian minister has voiced concern that as many as 2,500 Belgian ex-Nazis are receiving German pensions.

Belgian survivors of Nazi persecution appealed to the government to stop the payments, and Pensions Minister Daniel Bacquelaine “shares their indignation”, his spokeswoman told the BBC.

But Germany manages the payments and “we have no official figures” for the recipients, Geraldine Lamoureux added.

After the 1945 liberation, 57,000 Belgian collaborators were convicted.

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