Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress, called on the West German Government last night to implement “a final act of recompense” by making adequate payments to victims of Nazism who could not escape from Iron Curtain countries in time to file restitution applications. Under the present German law, such applications could be validated only if they were filed by October 1, 1953. An amendment to extend that cut-off date is pending now in the West German Parliament.
Dr. Prinz criticized the Bonn Government for a proposal to set aside a special “hardship fund,” of $175, 000, 000, to compensate these post-1953 applicants. Such a fund, he said, would be “totally unacceptable,” since it would provide only about a third of the required monies. He insisted that Germany set up, instead a plan for compensating the Nazi victims under an “equitable system of payments.”
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