Assurances that the Federal indemnification laws for individual victims of the Nazi regime–which have been stalled for nearly a year–would be implemented within the next few months were given by West German Finance Minister Dr. Fritz Schaeffer in Bonn yesterday to Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Upon his arrival here from Bonn today, Dr. Goldmann said he was satisfied with the results of the conferences he held in Bonn with Dr. Schaeffer and Prof. Ludwig Ehard, West German Minister for Economic Affairs. Later in the day Dr. Goldmann left Cologne for Berlin to confer with the Mayor of West Berlin, Dr. Walter Schreiber, on a “bulk settlement” of claims filed by the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization for the recovery of unclaimed or communal Jewish property in West Berlin.
Such settlements have been concluded with four states in the American zone and with the city-state of Hamburg in the British zone. But in Berlin, negotiations for a “bulk settlement” have been hanging fire since 1951.
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