The German Social Democrats were singled out for praise for the part they played in helping achieve the German reparations agreement with Israel and the world Jewish organizations, by Adolph Held, chairman of the American Jewish Labor Committee, addressing a luncheon here for delegates to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Mr. Held also praised the assistance of the American, British and French trade unions.
In reply, H. Freitag, head of the West German trade union movement, declared that “we shared the Jewish fate and misery” in the concentration camps, therefore it is a “natural part of our duty to demonstrate that there are Germans who remember what we owe the Jews.”
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