The Bavarian Government has ruled that it will not reopen the indemnification offices in Nuremberg and Wuerzburg, although the provincial legislature had recommended that the offices, shut down last year, be used again.
Jewish residents of northern Bavaria had complained that traveling to this city, where the only indemnification office in the province is located, entails added expense and delay. But the government insisted that the other offices must remain closed because their reopening would entail greater government expense and other “difficulties and inconveniences.”
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