The Central Council of Jews in Germany sent a telegram today to Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, requesting that there be no delay in the payment of indemnification to victims of Nazism.
Germany’s Finance Minister, Dr. Rolf Dahlgruen, announced last week that, due to a cramped budget for 1966, the first installment of $50,000,000, to have been paid next year to a special group of victims of Nazism, would be “deferred.” That group, including an estimated 150,000 Jews, consists of those victims of Nazism who could not escape from East European countries in time to file restitution claims prior to an old cut-off date which set October 1, 1953, as the deadline for such applications.
Under a special “hardship fund, “these post-1953 claimants would be entitled to a total of $300,000,000, with the first installment due in 1966.
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