No More Holocaust Reparations, Says German Finance Minister
Deutsche Welle (Germany)
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Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück said in Jerusalem Thursday that Germany had no plans to renegotiate a Holocaust reparations deal signed with Israel in 1952. "The existing deal is signed and final and there is no need to change it," said Steinbrück ... The [1952] Luxembourg agreement between the two countries stipulated that Germany would pay Israel reparations, and Israel would look after the survivors, who would not be permitted to sue Germany directly. Since the 1950s, Germany has paid 26 billion euros ($38 billion) in compensation. Around 1.7 billion of this went to Israel, the rest to German claimants.
Deutsche Welle (Germany)
http://www.dw- world.de/dw/article/0,,2968661,00.html?maca=en- bulletin-433-html
Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück said in Jerusalem Thursday that Germany had no plans to renegotiate a Holocaust reparations deal signed with Israel in 1952. "The existing deal is signed and final and there is no need to change it," said Steinbrück ... The [1952] Luxembourg agreement between the two countries stipulated that Germany would pay Israel reparations, and Israel would look after the survivors, who would not be permitted to sue Germany directly. Since the 1950s, Germany has paid 26 billion euros ($38 billion) in compensation. Around 1.7 billion of this went to Israel, the rest to German claimants.