By the end of the year, the West Berlin Indemnification Agency will have paid out $25,000,000 to Jews and non-Jewish victims of Nazism, mainly in compensation for illegal deprivation of liberty and incarceration in concentration camps, it was reported here today. In total amounts disbursed, Berlin has now moved into first place among the individual states of Germany.
The new seven member Supreme Restitution Court in West Berlin yesterday recorded as its first action a settlement of 22,000 marks ($5, 238) to Mrs. Alice Frank Arams of New York, formerly of Berlin. The sum was arrived at in an out-of-court settlement between Mrs. Frank-Arams and present owners of an apartment and store building on West Berlin’s main street which had been seized by the Nazis.
The tribunal consists of one judge each appointed by the United States, Britain and France, three judges appointed by the Berlin city administration and a “neutral” Swedish jurist, who presides over the court. The court, which already has 500 cases to consider, most of them affecting Jews, is expected to be in existence for at least two years.
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