A summer house that once belonged to Albert Einstein is being returned to the famed physicist’s heirs, according to German officials. After Einstein left Germany for the United States in 1933, concerned about the rise of German anti- Semitism, the house in the town of Caputh, near Berlin, was seized by the Nazis and later taken over by the Communist government of East Germany.
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