The East German Government will not recognize the “completely unjustified” Luxembourg reparations agreement between the West German Federal Republic and Israel, according to an official spokesman at a press conference held in East Berlin in connection with the note addressed to Bonn last week by Walter Ulbricht, who is the Communist Party leader and Deputy Minister-President of East Germany.
The reparations deliveries received by Israel from the Federal Republic constitute only one of the many “tributes” which, according to Ulbricht, are being exacted from the latter. The note, which was shrugged off as just another propaganda maneuver by West German and Allied circles, urged West Germany to rid itself of these burdens by annulling its foreign debts and by demanding a reduction of occupation costs.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
