German Fund
Cut For Victims

Bonn (JTA) — Germany
has moved to establish a
$300 million foundation
with Poland to compensate
Polish slave laborers and
others who suffered under
the Nazi occupation of that
country.
The foundation will be
administered like the Ger-
man fund that pays out
reparations to Jewish
persecutees in other coun-
tries.
In accepting the plan, the
Polish government agreed to
refrain from making further
demands for compensation
from Germany for sufferings
inflicted by the Nazis during
World War IL
The announcement was
made as the two countries
moved to ratify a friendship
treaty.
But while setting up this
new fund, Germany has also
moved to cut by half or more
the pensions that the former
East German government
paid for four decades to vic-
tims of the Nazis, most of
them former Communist of-
ficials.
That decision, announced
Oct. 17, has raised the
hackles of German Jewry
and drawn protest from the
opposition Social Democratic
Party.
The German Jewish com-
munity sharply protested
the decision to cut the
pensions.
"I am shocked by the lack
of sensitivity on the part of
the government," commun-
ity Chairman Heinz Galin-
ski said in Berlin. "This is a
very complicated and deli-
cate issue. They should have
consulted the persons who
are directly affected."
The move was made in
keeping with Bonn's efforts
to equalize financial ar-
rangements and legal
systems of the two former
German states, which were
reunited in October 1990.
The payments, which were
made to "fighters against
fascism," or "persecutees of
fascism," often exceeded
those made by the former
West Germany.
Among those who received
hefty pensions from the
former German Democratic
Republic was ousted Com-
munist Party boss Erich
Honecker, who had been im-
prisoned by the Nazis.
The Social Democrats
accused the German
government of trying to
depict all those who received
the special pensions as
collaborators of the former
Communist dictatorship.

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