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"East Germany's first freely elected parliament admits joint responsibility on behalf of the people for the humiliation, expulsion and murder of Jewish wo- men, men and children," said the statement, read by Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, speaker and acting head of state in the new regime. "We feel sad and ashamed. We ask the Jews of the world to forgive us." Apologies were extended as well to Israel, with whom the parliament expressed hope of soon establishing diplomatic relations. The statement was a total rejection of the position held for 40 years by East Ger- many's Stalinist rulers, that the GDR bore no respon- sibility for Nazi atrocities because it was founded on anti-fascism. "There's widespread rec- ognition that this is an im- portant historical statement turning over from the past and looking to the future," said U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. Dr. Israel Miller, president of the New York-based Con- ference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, welcomed the East Berlin declaration. "We are heartened by the readiness of the GDR parliament to follow its sen- timents with deeds by pro- viding just compensation for material losses," he said. World Jewish Congress President Edgar Bronfman called the GDR's statement "the first step in the founda- tion of a new relationship between the Jewish people and the whole of the German people." Bronfman added, "We believe the next step in the process is to arrive at ar- rangements for appropriate material amends on the part of East Germany for crimes of the Nazis, as has already been implemented by West Germany." Benjamin Meed, president of the American Federa- tion/Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, observed that "what is real- ly important is what affect the statement will have in preventing any repetition of the Holocaust in the future." According to Burton Levinson, national chair- man of the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the East German declaration "demonstrates that the country stands ready to con- front its Nazi past. B'nai B'rith International President Seymour Reich welcomed the statement as a "belated recognition of historical fact," and "a hopeful sign that the planned reunification of Germany will be a positive development." In a footnote from Prague, abbots of the Roman Catholic Church issued a statement expressing regret for the church's failure to act against the Nazi genocide against the Jews during World War II. The statement voiced remorse that church leaders did not "raise our voices" to assist the rescue of Jews. "Our help to those persecuted was not helpful enough," it said. The statement also welcomes Czechoslovakia's re-establishment of diplo- matic relations with Israel. 'East Germany Aided Arabs' Bonn (JTA) — An official of the former Communist regime in East Germany who found asylum in the West confirmed that his country had been a major provider of weapons to Israel's Arab adversaries. Alexander Schalck- Golodkowski, who was in charge of hard- currency dealings, said East German arms were sold to Iraq, Jor- dan and Egypt, and to non- Arab Iran, which has been an implacable foe of Israel since the fall of the Shah in 1979. But the former official made no mention of arms shipments to the Palestine Liberation Organization or other Palestinian groups.