The right of the State of Israel to claim reparations from Germany was challenged today by the Aachener Nachrichten, right-wing daily. In an editorial, the paper said that since the State of Israel was established after World War II and therefore never had been at war with Hitler, it was questionable whether Israel could claim reparations. It also asked whether Israel had been commissioned by world Jewry to demand billions in reparations.
In the eyes of the Jews, the editorial commented, “Germany will never lose the stigma of unforgivable crimes and is doomed to remain the eternal debtor of Jewry.”
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