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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 116, 12 November 1938, Page 10

PARTIALLY ASSESSED

QUESTION OF INSURANCES

JEWS REPAIR DAMAGE

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received November 12, 1.40 p.m.)

LONDON, November 11.

The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" says that insurance companies assess the damage resulting from the pogrom at £1,181,000 in Berlin. The amount for other parts of Germany has not yet been computed. The companies still await the decision of the Economics Minister, Herr Funk 5 as to whether they are responsible. The liability of foreign companies also depends on Herr Funk's decision. In the meantime Jews are being compelled to repair the damage though Aryans may send their claims to the police, who continue to round up non-Aryans.

The Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, in denying that the demonstrations had been organised, said that had he organised the demonstration there would have been hundreds of thousands, in the "Streets instead of a few thousand. Any criticism of the proceedings would merely make worse the situation of Jews in Germany.

The "Daily Telegraph's" Berlin correspondent says that none of the wrecked shops is likely to reopen under Jewish ownership. Aryans have already bought many at knock-down prices.

Personal assaults and damage totalling thousands of pounds were suffered by the nationals of half a dozen countries, Dutch being the principal victims, necessitating diplomatic intervention.

It is learned that the pogrom was extended to the Sudetenland, where synagogues were burned and numbers of refugees arrested, beaten, and forced to creep into Czechoslovakia, where the authorities gave them shelter and medical attention.