The Bavarian Ministry of the Interior announced today that property seized from Bavarian Jews by the Third Reich will be returned to them. There property has been destroyed, the government will pay compensation to the former Jewish owners, the announcement said.
It revealed that all Jews in Bavaria have received “concentration camp” ration cards, enabling them to secure additional quantities of food, while special food parcels will be given them around Christmas. A plan is being drafted to extend government aid to all those who were affected by the Nuremberg laws, the ministry said.
The announcement stressed, however, that “it is not the task of the Bavarian state to make good the financial losses of non-Bavarian Jews” now residing in the province, although ” it is intended to enable these Jews to maintain themselves as far as possible.” In this connection, the Ministry of the Interior said that the chief task of Dr. Herman Aumer, newly appointed State Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, will be to facilitate the emigration of Jews from Bavaria to Palestine and other overseas countries.
There are in Bavaria now about 23,000 Jews, of whom about 20,000 are aliene. It is estimated that ninety percent of them want to go to Palestine.
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