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German State Settles Half of All Compensation Claims

November 13, 1953
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Of 70,000 compensation and indemnification claims filed in Baden-Wuerttemberg, more than half, 37,770, have been “concluded,” the State Ministry of Justice announced today.

This rate of settlement puts Baden-Wuerttemberg well ahead of the other nine states in West Germany and Berlin, even when allowance is made for inclusion of rejected claims in the “concluded” list. Particularly noteworthy is the 49.5 percent settlement rate of claims based on property damage, impairment of professional advancement, and the like. In most other parts of Germany, the payment of such claims has barely begun.

A large share of the credit for this relatively good showing is due to Otto Kuester, head of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Restitution Agency and until his sensational resignation last year deputy chief of the German delegation to the reparations negotiations with Israel at The Hague.

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