A battle was won in the fight for restitution of property in Berlin to its Jewish heirs. The KarstadtQuelle company dropped its lawsuit to retain four properties in former East Berlin that once belonged to the Wertheim family, which ran one of the biggest department store chains in pre-Hitler Germany.
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