Addressing a meeting of 1,200 racial and political ##rsscutees here today, Dr. Philip Auerbach, Bavarian Commissioner for Persecutees, sclared that the victims of the Nazis would not be satisfied with “a handful of german marks,” but would insist on reclaiming the status they had in 1933.The meeting, which was sponsored by the Union of Persecutees, which is headed by Auerbach, heard him deliver a strong demand for assignment of property confiscated from Nazis to a rehabilitation fund for the Nazis’ victims. “During the closing months of the war, those of us in concentration camps heard Roosevelt’s and Churhill’s promises over the radio,” Auerbach said. “We have not forgotten them. We ## to tell the world that the racial and political persecutees did not lose the ##. We demand justice.”
Other speakers included German trade union leaders and representatives of political parties.
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