The conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany urged the German government and parliament last night to reopen the filing period for registration of indemnification claims by Nazi victims who left Eastern Europe in recent years. The claims conference also called for a satisfactory solution of the major demands advanced on behalf of aged, widowed, ill, and incapacitated victims of Nazi persecution.
A delegation of the claims conference met here this weekend with Chancellor Erhard, Vice Chancellor Mende, Foreign Minister Schroeder and Finance Minister Dahlgrun. The delegation also conferred with the Chairman of the Bundestag Indemnification Committee, Dr. Hirsch, and his vice-chairman, Prof. Boehm. The delegation also called on the leaders of the political parties in the Bundestag; Dr. Konrad Adenauer, and leaders of the Christian Democratic and Social Democratic parties.
Delegation consisted of Dr. Nahum Goldmann, conference president; Jacob Blaustein senior vice-president; Moses Leavitt, treasurer; Dr. Ernst Katzenstein, Permanent representative in Germany; and Saul Kagan, special consultant.
During the meetings with the German Governmental and Parliamentary leaders, the Claims Conference spokesmen stressed that the pending indemnification law must be “worthy of the spirit in which this historic program was conceived more than a decade ago.”
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