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Right answer, but not quite there with the solution.
Think WORKER and VERY COLD, or did you forget about them?
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It is not backing = Anticyclone
worker = ant
very cold = icy
perfect reproduction = clone
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Ahh, well done. Somehow I arrived at the correct answer via a completely different (and wrong) route.
Andy B
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Nazi Slaves being Taxed.[^]
How typical of our European neighbours that when things are a bit tight and they will be required to foot the bill of all the profligate countries in Europe that they decide to retroactively tax people enslaved under Nazi Rules.
Hitler would have been proud of them.
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Lost for words.
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Hitler would have been proud of them.
How I hate that. Why are you English people always sympathise with the Nazi time? Nice comments in that thread there.
To set a tax on an income - no matter if it's a pension or working income - is absolute normal in Germany. That's why we get along much better than some other states in Europe.
Now this is a special "income" and they need to take a closer look. And there we can find out that other states are the ones that are charging taxes and not the Germany. Russia has no taxes on those compensations. The English regulations on forced laborer compensations can be read here.
I bet there is something more behind the story.
regards Torsten
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TorstenH. wrote: How I hate that. Why are you English people always sympathise with the Nazi time? Nice comments in that thread there.
How I hate that. Why are you German people always failing to understand irony and sarcasm?
I was not looking at this article with fondness, I was, in point of fact, highlighting the offensiveness in an almost litotial manner by the use of ironic concepts.
ie Using an awful, hated man's praise as an indication of the objectionable nature of the facts.
Thus Godwin's Law.
Perhaps you need to research into how Godwin's Law works, then re-read my original post.
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Dalek Dave wrote: How I hate that. Why are you German people always failing to understand irony
and sarcasm?
No joke item, no <sarcasm> or <irony> tags.
How the hell is he supposed to read you mind?
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Why would I use a joke icon? There was no joke there.
I cannot help it if other people fail to see sarcasm or irony.
There are no icons for those.
And as for you commenting on my composition style, that is a bit rich considering you cannot make a posting without spelling errors.
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Oooh, touchy touchy! 
Actualy I cant type worth a damn. Anyway, sarcasm really doesnt come across in writing, you need to explicitely state it.
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There have been several discussions about invoking a Sarcasm icon.
Perhaps enclosing the phrase is dollar signs would do it.
$Yeah, very useful!$
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Yes, that would do.
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Odd, I had no difficulty comprehending the sarcasm in DD's initial posting.
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Erudite_Eric wrote: Anyway, sarcasm really doesnt come across in writing
Wrong! I totally got the sarcasm. And I bet 99% of "normal" people did and would as well.
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Erudite_Eric wrote: How the hell is he supposed to read you mind?
The same way he went to Disneyland in his head reading DD's original post.
best, Bill
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The story is pretty clear on what it states... Hence according to that my late father could possibly be taxed (if he was alive) for having worked in repairing Vermacht boots at the age of 11-13 in Bergen Belsen...
For the sake of all of us I am stopping here.
Alberto Bar-Noy
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I've no big problem taxing pensions, it's the retroactive nature of this law (if it's being reported correctly) that I find offensive and rather unfair.
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Yes I understand what the Nazis did was horrific. These slave labourers should count themselves lucky that they are receiving a special pension. If they were slave labourers in most other countries they would have gotten nothing. Having said that, it is not right that the Germans drop this bomb on them know. Let them be, in another 10 to 20 years there wont be any WW2 survivors left that would qualify for the pernsion.
Ego non sum semper iustus tamen Ego sum nunquam nefas!
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You are right, of coure, there cant be many left, and it is bad PR now to do this just to raise a few hundred thousand.
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sucram wrote: count themselves lucky
wow, I'm almost speechless at your ignorance. The holocaust remains the benchmark of human atrocity, and you think the victims should count themselves lucky.
Hopefully there's a special circle of hell reserved for people who think like this.
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Your comment is a typical one from people that think they know better.
I did not belittle the suffering of the Holocaust victims. I am merley saying that they need to count themselves lucky that they are receiving a pension. Any other people that suffred under any other regime would not have been given anything.
I am pretty sure that the Africans that where slaves for 200 years in the US suffered equally as much as the holocaust victims, yet they never received any kind of compensation.
The benchmark of human atrocity is no longer the Holocaust, it is countries like yours that allow people in countries like Ethiopis to starve to death, that do not rush to help countries like Rwanda to stop a genocide from happening.
What about all the countries like the UK, Belgium, France and Portugal that have plundered the natural riches of their colonies and then just left them to rot?
What about the systematic slaugthering of the native American Indians, by European settler in North America and South America.
So if you think that there aren't any people that have suffered eaually or worse then the Holocaust vicitms you need to wake up and smell the roses.
If only closed minds would come with closed mouths.
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Sorry, thi is money, given by Germany, to Belgiums, livinb in Belgium, as compensation for being used as slave labour.
So, are you suggesting that these people, unlike every other recipient of a German pension, should NOT pay tax?
Perhaps the Germans should just stop giving them their pension if taxing them on it is so offensive to you.
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Perhaps the Germans shouldn't have used slave labour in the first place, or at least, taxed them at source back in the 40's.
To retrospectively tax them for the last 6 years seems a little unfair too.
And how much will it raise?
Bugger all in the great scheme of things, certainly not enough to dig France out of the hole it is about to find itself in.
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taxing at the source slave laborers... Now isn't that grand.. How didn't they think of that one in all the havoc...
Alberto Bar-Noy
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Dalek Dave wrote: taxed them at source back in the 40's
Yeah, see, there is a problem here... they didnt get any wages.... 
Dalek Dave wrote: And how much will it raise?
Sod all compares to the PR error.
The UK still taxes black people. Perhaps we should not do so out of guilt for what our forebears did?
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