Rudolf Kustermeyer, correspondent of the West German News Agency, arrived in Jerusalem today, becoming the first German correspondent since the end of the Nazi regime to take up a resident assignment in this country. A non-Jew, Herr Kustermeyer was an anti-Nazi who spent considerable time as an inmate in Nazi concentration camps.
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