Expenditures of $28,600,000 for indemnification purposes in the current fiscal year, which began on April 1, were approved by the Budget Committee of the Bavarian Legislature after it had been told by Finance Minister Friedrich Zietsch that total payments made by Bavaria in the entire postwar ear amount to $64,000,000, of which $28,000,000 were disbursed during the past year. These figures apply to non-Jewish as well as Jewish victims of Nazism.
With regard to the sum approved for the current year, the Bavarian budget appropriates only $11,000,000, in expectation that the Federal treasury will contribute the remaining $16,000,000. This is somewhat doubtful, however, since the pending amendment to the Federal Indemnification Law provides for a federal contribution limited to 50 percent of the total. The long-delayed Amendment, which should have entered into force on April 1, is still awaiting passage by the Bonn Parliament.
For the Federation of Jewish Communities in Bavaria, an annual subsidy of $57,000 was again approved by the budget committee. All recommendations of the committee must be ratified by the full Landtag.
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