West German President Theodor Heuss has promised to give sympathetic consideration to an appeal from the Axis Victims League, of New York, for changes in German indemnification legislation and procedures, it was revealed here today by Dr. Bruno Weil, president of the League, who submitted the appeal to Dr. Heuss.
The appeal, signed by some 900 former German Jews who now live in America, asks the Bonn Government to make specific changes in the handling of indemnification applications from individual applicants, particularly those who were self-employed, or professionals or engaged in the arts. Dr. Weil revealed that he has urged that greater priority be given individual claims of German Jews over further bulk settlements to Jewish groups.
Dr. Weil, a prominent Berlin attorney before the Nazis came to power, visited that city before coming to Bonn. While there he conferred with Mayor Schreiber and urged that the former Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, destroyed by the Nazis, be rebuilt as an inter-faith and international “Temple of Tolerance. ” He suggested that part of the funds needed for the reconstruction be raised abroad.
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