The U.S. High Commission in Frankfurt has announced that more than 34,500 restitution claims filed in the American zone of Germany have been settled as of the end of June, 1951.
Heinrich Hellwege, chairman of the German Party, today sent a letter to Chancellor Konrad Adenaner urging termination of all denazification trials and suggesting that all denazification documents be destroyed.
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