West German Government leaders have assured Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, that Bonn would pay in full all its commitments to compensate victims of the Nazi regime.
Dr. Goldmann made this known here last night following a series of conferences with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, President Theodor Heuss, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard and Finance Minister Franz Etzel. German sources said that nearly $700,000,000 in the Federal budget had been set aside for payments to Nazi victims in the current fiscal year.
Justice Minister Fritz Schaeffer who in a speech last year criticized attorneys who handle restitution claims in Germany of demanding exorbitant fees, has written to the German Attorneys Union clarifying his statement. Herr Schaeffer said that he had referred only to foreign lawyers in that well publicized speech, not to Germans.
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