The Bavarian Indemnification Office completed action on 71, 000 claims for compensation in the less than two years between the time the Federal Government adopted its Indemnification Law and the fiscal year closed last March 31, the Association of Bavarian Jewish Communities reported today.
Heinz Meier, vice president of the Bavarian Indemnification Office, also reported that 116, 900, 000 marks were paid out to claimants in 1956 and 172, 100, 000 marks in 1957. He anticipated that the provincial indemnification load could be cleared up by 1963. He made the point that 1963 could see the end of the indemnification processing program if recent procedural improvements were continued and extended throughout the Indemnification Office machinery.
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