Reports that an agreement has been reached between the gigantic I. G. Farben Industry in Germany and Jewish representatives for the payment of indemnity by the company for the slave labor of Jews it employed at several of its plants at Nazi concentration camps were termed ” premature” here today by Dr. H. G. Van Dam, secretary-general of the Central Council of Jews of Germany.
In a statement, Dr. Van Dam admitted that negotiations had been initiated by Herbert Wollheim, member of the Council, with Farben, but that the later had refused to recognize the validity of the claim, The Van Dam statement further stated that a law firm has been instructed to prepare a suit against Germany’s largest chemical manufacturing concern.
Dr. Van Dam declared that ” it is morally, politically and legally inadmissible to allow a major industry to retain profits made through the exploitation of slave labor. It is in amazing that the industry, on its own initiative, has not yet seen its way to reaching a tolerable agreement.”
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