Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress, met with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard in Dusseldorf today, and discussed with him outstanding issues affecting relations between Germany and the Jewish people.
The meeting covered such issues as the extension of the German statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes, the presence of German rocket scientists ain Egypt and the continuation of German economic and other aid to Israel.
Dr. Prinz is currently visiting Germany at the invitation of West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt and as a guest of the Senate of West Berlin. He has met with German student and faculty groups, editors and religious leaders and spoken on German radio and television.
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