State-owned NS paid millions for operating trains that sent 102,000 people to their deaths

The Dutch state-owned rail company has said it will pay compensation to survivors and relatives of those transported by their trains to the Nazi death camps during the second world war after receiving a threat of litigation.

The Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) was paid £2.2m in today’s money for delivering 102,000 Jews to concentration camps across Europe. In 2005, the company’s then chief executive, Aad Veenman, offered “apologies from the bottom of his heart and in all modesty”.

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