In is American policy that persons and organizations deprived of property as a result of the Nazi policy of racial and political discrimination shall have their property returned to them or be given adequate compensation and that victims of the Nazi persecution receive indemnification for their sufferings, Amerioan High Commissioner in Germany John J. MoCloy declared yesterday at the opening of Amerika Haus, a U.S. information center in this city.
Commissioner McCloy, who reported to the Germans on his recent visit to the United States, pointed out that the wrongs suffered by the persocutees could not be completely redressed “but in all decency they must be faced and dealt with without evasion and subterfuge. A recovery built on a disregard of these obligations would be false and would constitute an omen of future disaster.” He also called on the Germans not to deny all responsibility for the crimes of the Nazis, although he said that no one wished to accuse all the Germans with responsibility for them.
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