A ten-year fight to add about 40,000 Rumanian Jews, who were victims of Nazi persecution, to the rolls of former Nazi victims receiving indemnification from West Germany took one step forward today, when the Standing Conference of State Indemnification Officers recommended, at a meeting in Bremen, that the Rumanian victims be added to the list of indemnification beneficiaries.
Until now, neither the federal government of West Germany nor the states have recognized the Rumanian victims of nazism as eligible for restitution. The Standing Conference which made the recommendation is,however,only a coordinating body with advisory status. A final decision on adding the Rumanian victims of nazism to the indemnification rolls will have to be made by Federal officials here.
The conference also recommended that payments being made now to victims of nazism be raised in proportion to hikes provided for civil service pensioners.
Luxembourg was added this weekend to the countries with whom West Germany has treaties for payment of indemnification to victims of nazism. Parliament ratified a treaty with Luxembourg, providing payments totaling 18,000,000 deutschemarks (about $4,500,000) for compensation of victims of the Nazi regime.
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