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Berlin Municipality Plans Bulk Settlement of Jewish Claims

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A joint committee has been formed here to prepare the groundwork for a bulk settlement of claims to heirless Jewish property in American, British and French sectors of Berlin, it was announced here today. The committee consists of several representatives of the Berlin municipal government and two representatives of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization.

Such bulk settlements, which provide for a relatively small blanket payment to the JRSO in settlement of all heirless property claims in lieu of prolonged wrangling about tens of thousands of individual cases, have already been completed in four states of the American zone. Under these agreements the state pays the JRSO and then it, not the JRSO, attempts to collect the property from “Aryanizers” who are now in possession.

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