When I saw the headline at Cracked, "4 Debts That Really Should Have Been Forgiven," I immediately thought of Haiti. That story is not included, as this list is focused on things you probably don't already know about. They are pretty bad. First off, around 240 Dutch people who had been imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II returned home to Amsterdam to find bills for rent that had not been paid since they were arrested! And not just for the remainder of the lease, it was for the entire time they were gone. Those homes had meanwhile been empty, occupied by Nazis, or else were destroyed by bombs. And the landlord was the Dutch government, so you'd think they would have been aware of the situation. Strangely, some tenants paid their bills, and the situation wasn't corrected until 2015. Read that story, and three others that may leave your blood boiling, at Cracked.
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