The Federal Government has concluded the draft of a law providing changes in the German criminal statute, including one amendment which orders the “extermination” of all “National Socialist ideals.”
During a budget debate in the provincial parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia it was revealed that Erich Reeder, a former Nazi government official in the province and onetime high ranking Gestapo officer, has been awarded a settlement of 26,000 deutschemarks (approximately $6,500) as “compensation” for loss of employment when he was ousted as an ex-Nazi. Reeder, who was once chief administrative officer of the German occupation forces in Belgium, also draws a pension of 1,000 marks a month.
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