An estimated 1,300,000,000 deutschemarks has been earmarked for compensation to Nazi victims in the West German Federal budget being prepared for the next fiscal year, Finance Minister Franz Etzel announced. This is about 33 percent higher than last year’s payments. The overall German budget will be over 39,000,000,000 marks.
Prof, Carlo Schmid, Vice President of the West German Parliament, today laid a wreath before the monument in Warsaw commemorating the martyrs of the Warsaw Ghetto, it was reported from the Polish capital. Prof. Schmid is visiting Warsaw to lecture at its university.
(In Vienna, the Austrian Parliament yesterday commemorated the country’s occupation by the Nazis with a five-minute pause in its session and the House hoisted the Austrian flag at half-mast. A memorial stone to the victims of Nazism was unveiled in Vienns’s Heldenplatz. Provincial governments also held commemorative sessions.)
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