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Three important officials of
the West German Government,
who came to Detroit last week-
end to. outline to claimants of
indemnification and reparation
for losses suffered under the
Nazis, gave assurances that the
pledges made by the Adenauer
Government will be honored.
The three guests were Dr.
Georg Blessin, member of the
Federal German Finance Minis-
try; Kurt Brockhaus, member
of the Senate of Berlin, and Dr.
Hans Brenner, Regierungsdirek-
tor of Rheinland-Pfalz.
They addressed an overflow
meeting of German'persecutees,
at the Davison Jewish Center,
under the sponsorship of -. the
Gemiluth Chassodim Congrega-
tion and the Jewish Resettle-
ment Service.
At noon on Friday, they met
with leaders of the two groups
and with members of the press
at a luncheon at the Harmonic
Club, as guests of Dr. Ferdi-
nand R. H. Friedensburg, Jr.,
German Consul here, who pre-
sided.
The officials explained that
all claims against Germany
will total 33 to 34 billion
marks—$5 to $6 billion. They
said it is expected that the
final. date for all payments
will be March 1, 1963, but
that pensions still due them
will be continued and pay-
ments to Israel will continue
some time thereafter.
Major sums paid out so far
are the payments to Israel, out
of the total 'of $720,000,000
agreed upon to be paid during
a ten-year period.
The total number of claim-
ants against all of Germany is
1,500,000, the emissaries report-
ed. Of this number, 126,000 are
in Israel, 76,000 in this country
—10 per cent of the claimants
being in Germany proper and
90 per cent in foreign countries.
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A distinction was drawn be-
tween indemnification claimed
by individuals for losses in-
curred due to imprisonment,
impairment of health, etc.; and
restitution for property.
In the Soviet Zone, it was
pointed out, "there is no real
indemnification law, but pen-
sions are paid to some privi-
leged persons."
The spokesmen for the West
German Government were
asked, in this connection,
whether the pressure that
was exerted by the Arabs, to-
gether with the Communists
in East Berlin, to force an
end to German reparations
payments to Israel, could at
any time interfere with the
existing agreements. The re-
ply was:
"The existing agreement
was made between the two
nations and will not be
broken. We will live up to
our agreements."
"All peoples are treated alike
in indemnification payments,"
the German officials said when
they were asked for the per-
centage of Jewish sufferers as
distinguished from the non-
Jews. All who suffered under
the Nazis will be compensated,
they said.
A more comprehensive law is
planned, they indicated, and
they expressed the hope that
the deadline for filing claims,
originally set for the coming
September, will be extended to
March 31, 1958.
They also said that persons
who have been . expelled from
the Soviet Zone and who now
live in West German territory
have full rights to make claims.
Organizations and community
groups are being compensated
as cultural elements by agree-
ment with the Conference on
Material Claims Against Ger-
many, it was reported.
The total amount already paid
out has run into the hundreds
of millions of marks.
Dr. Friedensburg, in his open-
ing remark's at Friday's lunch-
eon meeting, asked for under-
-standing of the purpose of the
gathering. "What had been done
in the name of Germany for
about 12 years in Europe and
especially in Germany itself
makes it difficult to create a
new belief and we are now
trying to be a good fellow in
the family of nations."
"My country," he added; "is
not trying to spend money to
ask that everything should be
forgotten. We are trying to
help those who have suffered,
to give material aid to those
who suffered material losses.
I can only assure you that
every German knows what is
happening. We try to avoid
such things as happened from
happening again. Our govern-
ment is really trying hard to
accomplish this aim. My
government earnestly wishes
to live up to its pledge and
to compensate the sufferers."
Dr. Friedensburg, whose
father was Mayor of Berlin in
pre-Nazi days, is himself a
claimant for compensation for
losses suffered under the Nazis-
during the last war. He urged
all who have claims to file them
immediately.
Pastor Teutsch of the Germ-an
Lutheran Church gave the in-
vocation.
In his benediction (schluss
gebitt), Dr. Max Kapustin ex-
pressed the hope for people to
meet together, to think together,
"as human beings," "in . behalf
of the greatest principle of jus-
tice and righteousness," and "to
practice it now and forever."
Senator Brockhaus told The
Jewish News that Nazism has
declined in Germany. He said
he believes that untoward in-
cidents, such as the desecration
of cemeteries, are acts of van-
dalism, which the vandals prac-
tice also against other faiths.
To prove his point, he said
that "The Diary of Anne
Frank" now is taught in higher
German schools in order to keep
the German youth informed on
the tragedies that were imposed
by the Nazis.
Mrs. Herta Korn, Jewish
Resettlement indemnification
worker, reported this week
that the total number of De-
troit claims, filed during a
four - year period, exceeded
400.
At present, she said, 186 ac-
tive claims are being processed
by the Resettlement Bureau, 10
per cent of them being former
Gerinan Jews. The others, she
said, are from people from East
European countries who were
liberated from concentration
camps. Since May 1, she said,
an additional 16 new claims
were filed, and additional ones
are being received all the time.
Mrs. Korn asid that the Re-
settlement Service handles
claims . only for clients who are
unable to afford the services of
personal lawyers.
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