Prof. Franz Boehm, head of the West German delegation to the reparations negotiations with the delegations of Israel and Jewish organizations outside the Jewish State, today announced that Otto Kuester, Wuerttemberg-Baden state commissioner for reparations, will be his deputy at the talks.
Prof. Boehm, who revealed that his delegation will include five financial experts, refused to hazard a guess as to the length of the negotiations. He said that the delegations would have to study each other’s proposals, after which the German experts would consider the Israeli and Jewish claims in the light of the German external debt situation and in the light of the amount of reparations already paid by the German states.
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