Bonn Justice Minister Fritz Schaeffer, who recently created a furore in and out of Germany by charging that West German compensation to Jewish victims of the Nazis was endangering the stability of the deutschemark, has returned to the attack.
In a speech in Passau, Bavaria, Herr Schaeffer asserted that he had not made his challenged statements for racist reasons, but because they were the truth. He reiterated his estimate that if the present pace of the reparations program is maintained West Germany will have paid out the equivalent of $6, 000, 000, 000 in compensation. He asked, instead, that compensation payments by the Federal Government and the states be held to approximately $250, 000, 000 a year.
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