Dutch officials said today that under the Dutch-West German treaty of indemnification, which will soon be put before the Dutch Parliament, West Germany will pay 125,000,000 marks ($30,000,000) for all Dutch victims of the Nazi regime. Distribution of the funds will be decided by the Dutch Government which has set up an advisory committee for the task.
Foreign Minister Josef Luns said today that as part of the indemnification agreement, a “Cemetery of Honor” will be established in Duesseldorf, Germany, in memory of the 107,000 Dutch civilian deportees, mainly Jews, who were taken to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany and murdered by the Nazis.
The Foreign Minister reported that arrangements for such memorials will also be made in Hamburg, Hanover and Frankfurt. Books will be prepared in memory of the victims and placed in each “Cemetery of Honor,” the Minister said. All of the Dutch victims of Nazi mass murders will be listed in the volumes.
The other memorial centers will commemorate the 5,600 Dutch civilians who perished in Bergen Belsen, Dachau, Natzweiler, Flossenberg and Neuengamme. Thousands of Jews were included among the latter victims.
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