Problems connected with the German delivery of reparations goods and with the German Federal law for indemnification of individual victims were discussed here today by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, presiding officer of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
The conferences also included Dr. F. Shinnar, head of the Israeli purchasing mission in Germany; Minister for Economics Ludwig Erhard; and Foreign Office State Secretary Prof. Walter Hallstein. Dr. Goldmann is concerned that the Federal indemnification law shall be applied to the individual German states and that until this is done the states shall continue to make payments to Nazi victims under the old regulations. After the conferences with the German Ministers, Drs. Goldmann and Shinnar paid a visit to Prof. Theodor Heuss, President of the West German Republic.
Meanwhile, the state of North Rhine Westphalia was today the first of West Germany’s nine states to promulgate a directive naming the governmental agencies that will accept and process applications filed by individual Nazi victims under the Federal indemnification law. With respect to applicants who now live abroad, the directive specifies that claims originating in North Rhine Westphalia must be submitted to the regional government administrator in Cologne.
Responsibility for carrying out the law on a Germany-wide basis is vested in the Bonn Ministry of Finance, which has not yet issued a single implementation regulation although three months have gone by since it was adopted.
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