The French Government decided yesterday to re-examine the system under which compensation to the victims of nazism in France will be made. The decision concerns the sum of 400,000,000 deutschemarks ($100,000,000) which West Germany handed over to the French Government as final settlement for indemnification of French victims of nazism.
The money is to be paid to those victims who have suffered persecution “outside the laws of war.” Jewish organizations and associations of victims of the Nazis have been consulted by the French Government and will have a chance to make their views known again before a system for allocation of the indemnity funds is worked out.
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