Nine American organizations representing survivors of Nazism from Germany, Hungary, Poland, Roumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia today sent a cable to top West German government officials protesting the restitution plans of the German government now before the West German Parliament. The cable was addressed to Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder and Finance Minister Rolf Dahlgruen.
The cable is a protest against the decision of the German Finance Ministry to ask for only $100,000 in additional restitution money, whereas the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has recommended that a minimum of $250,000,000 be provided for those survivors of Nazi persecution and confiscation who have as yet not received restitution from the West German government in accordance with the “debt of honor” pronouncement made in the past by the present German Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard, and the former Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer.
The nine organizations making the protest are the Association: of Yugoslav Jews in the U. S. United Roumanian Jews of America, Inc., Club of Polish Jews, Jewish Nazi Victims Organization of America, American Association of Former European Jurists American Federation of Jews from Central Europe, Association of Jews from Czechoslovakia in the U.S., World Federation of Hungarian Jews, and the Widows Group.
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