Germany accepting Soviet WWII claims

**Robertvincent** · 07-10-2012

Germany accepting Soviet WWII claims

The chairman of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has announced that an estimated 80,000 victims of Nazi Germany in the former Soviet Union are now eligible for compensation payments.

In a letter to The Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Dr Danny Lamm, the Chairman of the Conference Julius Berman wrote:

“I am very pleased to tell you that the Claims Conference has secured a landmark agreement that will enable the first-ever compensation payments to an estimated 80,000 Nazi victims in the former Soviet Union.

http://www.jwire.com.au/news/germany-accepting-soviet-wwii-claims/26332

**Robertvincent** · 07-12-2012

Almost All Survivors Now Get Reparations

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The negotiations took place after the German delegation, led by Finance Ministry State Secretary Werner Gatzer, took a two-hour tour of the Holocaust Museum—a program designed, just like a similar expedition to visit elderly survivors in New York last year, to make sure the discussions weren’t “just an intellectual exercise,” as Eizenstat put it.

“We wanted them to see the Holocaust as history, as no museum other than Yad Vashem can do.”

And, not incidentally, those institutions point to a future for the Claims Conference long after every survivor has been cared for. “My feeling is that Hitler wanted a Thousand Year Reich, so there should be a thousand-year program of remembrance for the thousand-year history of European Jewry,” Eizenstat said, before leaving to deliver his formal remarks.

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/105973/almost-all-survivors-now-get-reparations

**Robertvincent** · 07-12-2012

$70 billion on, Claims Conf. marks 60 years of reparations from Germany

When representatives of Israel, Germany and the newly created Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany met 60 years ago in Europe to hammer out a reparations agreement for the crimes of Nazi Germany, some Holocaust survivors were still living in Displaced Persons camps on the continent.

Six decades on, much has followed from that first document signed in 1952, known as the Luxembourg Agreement.

Germany has paid the equivalent of more than $70 billion to survivors and programs that aid survivors. Israel and Germany have become close allies.

$70 billion on, Claims Conf. marks 60 years of reparations from Germany | World | Jewish Journal