Chancellor Konrad Adenauer welcomed this week-end the “reawakened life” of Jewish communities in Germany as evidence of the success of the West German restitution program.
In a letter to the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the Chancellor wrote on the 20th anniversary of “crystal night,” the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938 when Nazi gangs roamed Germany burning Jewish synagogues and destroying Jewish communal and privately-owned property, that nothing could cancel out the suffering caused the Jews by the Nazi regime. “But because of this, it was and is a special desire of the Federal Government to compensate at least for material losses as far as possible,” Dr. Adenauer added.
Jews in Germany and throughout the world today marked the anniversary of “crystal night.”
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