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Gen. Clay Turns Down Draft Indemnification Proposal Because It Laces Provision for Dp’s

March 21, 1949
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A draft proposal of a plan to provide indemnification for victims of Nazism submitted by a United States zonal council of German provincial leaders was rejected today by General Lucius Clay, Commander of the American occupation forces, it was learned here. The General’s decision, welcomed by Jewish leaders, was based on the fact that the plan did not include DP’s.

In the meantime, at a conference in Heidelberg of leading Jewish organizations called by Harry Greenstein, Gen. Clay’s Jewish adviser, the main issues discussed were the future of the Jewish communities in Germany, emigration and the rising wave of ant Semitism. The delegates to the conference estimated that 60,000 Jews had emigrated from the American zone while in the British sector there are still some 10,000 Jewish displaced persons.

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