France to pay $60 million for Holocaust victims deported by state rail firm


PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Friday it had agreed to put $60 million (38.47 million pounds) into a fund managed by the United States to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi death camps, a deal that protects it from future U.S. litigation.

About 76,000 Jews were arrested in France during World War Two and transported in appalling conditions in railway boxcars to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, where most died.

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