The West German Government will keep all pledges and treaties for indemnification and reparations for losses by victims of Nazism, according to a group of Bonn officials visiting Detroit.
The assurances included a statement that no pressures on the part of the Arab states or from the East Germans would deter the Bonn Government from carrying out its commitments to former victims of Nazism.
The visitors were Dr. Georg Blessin, member of the federal finance ministry; Kurt Brockhaus, member of the west Berlin senate; Dr. Hans Brenner, member of the Government of Rhineland-Pfalz. Dr. Ferdinand R. H. Friedensburg, Jr., German consul in Detroit and son of the Mayor of Berlin in pre-Nazi days, was host to the three Bonn representatives who addressed meetings of a Jewish congregation here. They urged claimants to file as soon as possible.
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