A five-point program with which the German government could begin to make at least "minimal" restitution and indemnification of the claims of Jewish victims of Nazism was presented here this week-end by Dr. Herman Gray, chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the American Jewish Committee, upon his return from a European trip during which he conferred with President Theoder Heuss of the West German Republic and the Prime Ministers of the states of Heuss and Bavaria.
Dr. Gray said that he and other A.J.C. representatives had impressed on German government, political and trade union leaders, the need to stop haggling over Jewish claims and make provision for the following: 1. Settlement of claims made by individual Jews; 2. Settlements between the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization and the German states over Jewish heirless property; 3. The German Government to provide funds for Jewish relief and rehabilitation work to compensate for property confiscated by the Nazis; 4. The German Government to recognize the validity of the Israel Government’s claim for reparations; 5. The state governments to help the Jewish communities remaining in Germany to maintain their religious, social and cultural institutions.
In addition, Dr. Gray suggested a five-point program designed to help the German Government achieve democracy. This included: elimination of neo-Nazi organizations; establishment of administrative machinery within the German Government for continuous supervision of civil rights in Germany; an extensive education program in behalf of better inter-group relations; prevention of dissemination of propaganda against religious and racial groups; and barring of former Nazis from public office, particularly in the diplomatic corps and the army.
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