Germany to compensate Kindertransport refugees 80 years on

The German government will give a one-off payment to mostly Jewish survivors, who were rescued from Nazi Germany as children.

The German government is compensating survivors of the Kindertransport programme. Source: Getty Images

The German government said Monday it has agreed to an one-off payment to survivors of the Kindertransport programme, which brought Jewish children persecuted in Nazi Germany to safety in Britain.

Around 10,000 young lives were saved from the horrors of Adolf Hitler's regime by the relief action that began in December 1938 and ended in May 1940.

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