European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes tuesday february 25,1986 paying for the holocaust associated press Ore than 40 years after the defeat of Adolf Hitler s third Reich West Germany is still paying restitution to survivors of the nazi holocaust. With enormous sums of Money involved the Issue remains an extremely emotional one both to people who suffered under the nazi regime and to germans who want to put the Era behind. Scathing anti semitic remarks in january by Hermann Fellner 35, a conservative postwar generation bavarian member of the West German parliament regarding restitution demands by jews for those who were forced into slave labor by nazi Germany stirred a storm of protest from German jewish leaders. The politician finally apologized a week after his remarks leading members of the governing coalition government in Bonn including Chancellor Helmut Kohl remained largely silent on the Deputy s statements. Since 1953, the West German government has paid $30 billion to victims of nazi persecution and their relatives the Bonn finance ministry says. Most of the recipients have been jews. Bonn aim la paying $693 million a year to holocaust survivors most of it in monthly checks of up to $1,346, the ministry says. German Industry which exploited an estimated 500,000 people As slave labourers during the nazi years has paid $23 million at current rates of Exchange. But survivors and some West German politicians say Many nazi victims were never compensated for the blood and sweat of their forced labor four decades ago. It is a scandal that the widow of a High nazi functionary can get a pension while there Are nazi victims that go empty handed Heinz Westphal a member of the opposition social democrats said in the bundestag the West German parliament. A x ". �  a  of with i Nivon at Buehrt Wau it was Well known to All that the inmates were literally being worked to death. The intention was the jews would be used up and then burned Benjamin Ferencz wrote in 1979. Ferencz is a jewish american War crimes investigator and author of the Book less Nan  weal Germany paired its first restitution Law in 1953 and about 1 million people worldwide have filed claims under it. In 1952, the Bonn government agreed to pay 3 billion Marks $714 million at the time to Israel to help with the resettlement of Many european jews. Bonn also made payments to 12 other countries where holocaust survivors live. Six private companies that have made payments to former slave labourers Are the former . Farben chemical company Krupp steel Siemens and age Tel Funken electrical companies the arms manufacturer Rhei metall and Fel Muhle Nobel. But when parcelled out to survivors the payments have Only averaged $500 to $1,500 each. Survivors of . Farben s Plant at the Auschwitz death Camp in Poland where some jobs were called murder detail because scarcely anyone survived received an average of $1,200 apiece. All the Industry payments have been distributed through the claims conference which negotiated the sums on behalf of jewish survivors. Other victims who were not so Well organized such As gypsies have received nothing from Industry. Some holocaust survivors went unpaid under West Germany s restitution Laws because they missed the 1969 deadline to file claims. Others were slave labourers for industries that refused to pay them after the nazi defeat in 1945. Six companies paid compensation although historians estimate that hundreds of companies used the forced labourers. The bleat company to make restitution was Fel Muhle Nobel a subsidiary of the flick Industrial Empire which paid 5 million Marks $2 million on Jan. 8 to a new York based group representing the surviving slave labourers. Claims against other companies could still be raised if enough survivors come Forward to press them Saul Kagan the director of the conference on jewish material claims against Germany told the associated press. There is nothing else pending at the moment but that does t Rule out anything for the future Kagan said from his office in new York. Historians estimate that 6 million jews were systematically exterminated by the germans during world War ii. Several million other european civilians including slavs gypsies political prisoners and priests also died from nazi brutalities. 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