Otto Greve, chairman of the Bonn Parliamentary committee on compensation claims, resigned his post this week-end under charges that he had misused his office to represent, at exorbitant fees, victims of Nazi persecution.
Herr Greve, a Social Democrat, denied all accusations of wrong doing. Last week, Dr. H.G. van Dam, secretary general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, hit out at the pressure against Herr Greve, asserting that it was really aimed at hurting the whole compensation system and that fees in such matters could not be termed exorbitant without an understanding of the complicated and lengthy procedures required under German compensation regulations.
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