Dutch railway to pay out €50m over role in Holocaust

State-owned operator transported 102,000 Jews to Nazi death camps

The Dutch railway has accepted a recommendation that it pay up to a50m (45m) to relatives of thousands of people it transported to Nazi death camps during the second world war.

Roger van Boxtel, the chief executive of the state-owned Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), said it was time for the company to make a gesture to those "directly involved" as he reiterated an apology first made in 2005.