Comment in political circles here indicated that the German government officially recognized the justification of the claims advanced by the Jewish doctors Fuereisen and Frenkel of Beuthen, Upper Silesia, and agreed to reinstate them in the sick fund panel system of the piebiscite area, as well as pay them damages for the time during which they were ousted from that system, only because the government expected a verdict in favor of the Jews and wished to avoid such defeat.
It was revealed that conciliatory negotiations to avoid a negative verdict were instituted by the German government.
The report that the German government had acknowledged its guilt in the case to the Upper Silesian Mixed Claims Commission of the League of Nations was regarded as an important victory for German Jews. Other cases in which physicians claim as did Fuereisen and Frenkel that they were ousted from the panel system merely because they were Jewish are pending before the Mixed Commission.
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