In a draft amendment to the law dealing with the payment of pensions to civil servants dismissed by the Nazis for racial, religious or political reasons, the Ministry of the Interior has suggested that certain benefits if that law be extended to former German university lecturers and professors who were not in a technical sense members of the German civil service, and are therefore not at present entitled to indemnification.
Full and associate professors have always been covered by the law, but not the subordinate grades of professors and lecturers. This state of affairs has proved injurious to German prestige, says the government, in view of the fact that the latter group includes Jewish scholars who have in the meantime distinguished themselves in other countries. The government draft of the amendment has been transmitted to the Federal Council for consideration.
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