An amendment to the Federal Indemnification Law of 1956 to provide special payments to civil servants disenfranchised by the Nazi regime after 1933 on account of race or religion, was advocated here today by the influential newspaper, the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung.
The newspaper advised Parliament’s indemnification committee to amend the 1956 act so that persons pensioned in 1933, due to religious or racial persecution, be given compensation commensurate with such promotions as they might have received in the civil service. Germans hindered in passing their final examinations after 1933, on racial or religious grounds, should also be provided for, the newspaper stated.
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