Former employes of Jewish communities in pre-Hitler Germany have received about 70,000,000 marks in compensation for losses suffered under Nazi persecution, according to an official West German Government survey published today. They were among the former public servants who have received more than 1,000,000,000 marks as compensation for losing their jobs under the Nazis.
The survey establishes that more than 1,000,000 Nazi victims have filed 2,250,000 indemnification claims and that 32 percent of the applications had been processed by April 1.
Estimates of total indemnification costs to Federal and State governments range from 14 to 24 billion marks, the report said, adding that the costs “weigh heavily” on the state and Federal budgets.
Payments to individual claimants have been high, according to the report, citing 60 payments in one province from January 1, 1957 to March 31, 1958, amounting to 100,000 marks each. In one case, an indemnification of two and a half million marks was paid.
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