The legal committee, and later the steering committee of the Bundesrat West Germany’s Upper House, yesterday recommended changes in the bill to indemnify individual Nazi victims which was adopted last week in the Bundestag, the Lower House. The changes, which seek to shift certain costs from the individual states to the Federal treasury, have considerable merit, but observers here are fearful that if adopted by the Bundesrat, at its next meeting on July 17, they may jeopardize enactment of the law.
Any changes made by the Bundesrat must go to a conference committee of both houses of the German Parliament. The indemnification bill cannot become law if the Bundestag fails to adopt the conference committee’s compromise at a single, one-day session, which is still scheduled to take place.
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