There will still be about 700,000 individual restitution claims against Germany on which no action will have been taken when the restitution law expires in 1963, if the present slow tempo of processing such claims is maintained by the German officials, it was estimated here today.
A report made public today said that about 1,740,000 individual claims are still pending. At present only about 70,000 claims are being processed every three months, About 63 percent of the claimants are Jewish survivors of the Nazi regime, now living in many countries.
The slowing down on the processing of restitution claims was attributed here today by Kurt Grossman, expert on Jewish restitution problems, to excessive bureaucracy on the part of German officials and to new, illiberal decisions by German courts which have rejected some claims on narrow legal grounds, thereby tying up tens of thousands of claims in similar categories.
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