Another effort will be made next month to negotiate a agreement between The Netherlands and West Germany on German indemnification of Dutch victims of Nazi persecutions. The foreign ministers of the two countries, it was announced here today, will meet near Frankfurt-am-Main, July 7, to try to settle a number of problems, among them the issue of indemnification.
Negotiations on indemnification were started between the Dutch and the Germans two years ago, but have been interrupted several times. The Ditch are pressing claims totalling 220,000,000 deutschemarks, ($52,320,000) a figure disputed by the Germans.
Other subjects on the agenda for the Foreign Ministers’ conference will be restitution of Dutch property seized by the Nazis, and rectification of the Dutch-German borders
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