The Central Council of the Jews in Germany sent a protest today to President Peter Altmeier of the Upper House of Parliament over the planned budget curtailment eliminating 200,000,000 marks ($50,000,000) scheduled to have been paid in 1966 to a special group of victims of Nazism. Those affected are persons mostly Jews, who were trapped in Iron Curtain countries at the October 1953 deadline for filing compensation claims and were unable to file in time.
The Council message called the action a “serious breach of the law” and added that “this hasty and ill-considered step is directed against a small minority of survivors who were victims of state injustice.” The protest statement asserted that the budget out would “lead to an intolerable new situation” for those victims.
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