Nazi veterans receive a pension from Hitler – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

Among the 15 inhabitants of Sweden who continue to receive German pensions for having participated in the Second World War with the Third Reich, there are at least two former members of the Waffen SS, a Nazi party weapon involved in many war crimes, according to the Dagens Nyheter newspaper survey published on March 8.

A week earlier, the Government of Schleswig-Holstein, a Member State of the Federal Republic of Germany, officially communicated the total number of beneficiaries of these pensions. All have between 82 and 101 years and receive a pension between SEK 1,500 and 10,000 ($ 160 and $ 1,067, respectively).

Despite claims by German authorities that none of the pensioners were members of the Waffen SS, the journalists found that two of them fought in the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking.

Sweden was not occupied by Nazi troops and only about 200 Swedes voluntarily joined the Third Reich Army. In 1941 they received a pension by a Hitler decree, the only decision that was not repealed during the denazification process in Germany. The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), as a successor to the Third Reich, began paying pensions guaranteed by the Nazis since 1949.

Last February, German pensions awarded to ex-Nazis were controversial. after Belgian activists discovered that 27 former employees of the Third Reich living in their country they still receive payments from Germany. The German authorities reported that 2,033 people around the world were receiving a pension for the same reason.

At the same time, in the War Victims Act, which governs the benefits for ex-combatants of the Second World War, it is stated that those who have violated the principles of humanity and who have voluntarily adhered to the Waffen SS can not pension.