A German court ruled April 20 that a historian specializing in the Holocaust must return all remaining tape recordings and documents that he borrowed from a survivors’ group. The Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto loaned Wolfgang Scheffler the materials in 1992, when they hired him to write a book about the ghetto, but Scheffler has yet to write the book, despite a contract that called on him to write the book within 28 months.
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