A non-Jewish member of the West German Bundestag will attend next week’s Tel Aviv memorial rally marking the tenth anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He is Dr. Otto Heinrich Greve, a Social Democratic deputy from this city, who will fly to Israel tomorrow at the invitation of the memorial rally’s sponsoring committee, whose members know him as a dauntless anti-Nazi and as the attorney for hundreds of former Belsen inmates in their struggle for some measure of financial indemnification.
Although only 47. Dr. Greve is a veteran democrat who, prior to the Hitler era, headed the yough organization of the German State Party in Rostock and battled against the rising Nazis. He studied law, but was not admitted to the bar by the Nazi regime and went into industrial administration instead. During that period he helped many Jews flee Germany.
After the collapse of Nazism at the war’s end, Greve moved to Hanover, the city closest to the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, where he became friendly with camp leaders and residents. A charter postwar member of the Free Democratic Party, Greve switched to the Social Democratic Party when Nazi elements infiltrated his own group in Lower Saxony. He made the party change in 1948 and has represented the Socialists in the Bundestag ever since. When the Bundestag Indemnification Committee was created some months ago, Dr. Greve was named its chairman.
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