Germany signed an accord giving the Central Council of Jews in Germany $3 million in governmental support each year. The signing of the agreement by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Paul Spiegel, the head of the Central Council, came on the 58th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.
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