The British Government hopes for early discussions between the West German Government and the representatives of eight West European states on improvement of Bonnes restitution and indemnification program for victims of Nazism in countries outside Germany, a government spokesman said in the House of Lords today.
Replying to a query, the Earl of Gosford said that a year-old German reply to a query by eight Western nations had not given the guarantee of adequate compensation for refugee survivors of Nazi concentration camps. It did, he said, suggest the establishment of a special charitable fund against which Nazi victims or their dependents in economic trouble might draw.
This proposal, he added, might be investigated at a meeting in the near future between Germany and Britain, France, Denmark, Greece, Luxembourg, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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