1:::', ' F'4, 771bantiOntaW9 011ttPtF.1=7 Adenauer Government's Plans o• Outlined by V. isi .t. ma Officials 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. We're Now Making The Best Deal In Town On The '57 Buick. See Charles Weinstock at 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. 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