Fochrenwald, the last Jewish displaced persons center in Germany, was visited yesterday by officials of the West German Government’s Foreign Ministry and by representatives of other Ministries.
Several measures to aid the inhabitants of the camp were discussed by the German officials, following talks with leaders of the camp and representatives of the Joint Distribution Committee. It was decided to build a school in the camp and to improve the center’s medical facilities. Special financial assistance for the camp’s inhabitants was also promised.
(A photograph showing Leni Riefenstahl, one-time friend of Hitler, watching the massacre of Jews by German soldiers in the Polish village of Konsky in September 1939, was published this week in the German “Illustrated Weekly,” several days after a German court acquitted her of charges of being a Nazi, the Chronicle reported in London. The photograph was taken 12 years ago by a German Army corporal who says that Fraulein Riefenstahl had watched the Germans now down 30 Jewish men, women and children with machine guns after the victims had spent four hours scratching out graves with their bare hands.)
The city of Mannheim has commissioned the German sculptor Gerhard Marks to design a monument to the victims of the Nazis. The south German city has appropriated 60,000 deutschemarks for the project and intends to dedicate the monument next November 16, Germany’s national day of remembrance for the dead.
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