High officials of the Hesse State Indemnification Office, and of the local office in this city, have been charged with obstructing payments to victims of Nazism by “super-bureaucratic” practices operated along lines of “Prussian exactness.”
Figures revealed here by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior show that the Wiesbaden indemnification office paid in the last year less than half of the sums appropriated for indemnification. Of 93,000,000 marks allocated, only 45,000,000 have been paid. The figures also show legal costs for indemnification in the last year amounted to 350,000 marks–50,000 marks above the legal costs anticipated.
Federal Government officials at Bonn have criticized the indemnification officials in this city. They declared that the figures here prove “the animosity against indemnification supported by certain influential officials in the Wiesbiden office, under the cloak of formal legalism.”
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