Officials announced today that Austria and West Germany will exchange here on Tuesday ratification documents on the agreement by which the Bonn Government will contribute to a fund for compensation of Austrian victims of Nazism.
West Germany pledged to pay $80,000,000 toward the total program. The Austrian Government has not yet made public the amount it will contribute to the fund.
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