In a suit brought by a Jew who resigned his position in a German firm as early as mid-1933 and emigrated from Hitler Germany, the Federal Supreme Court has ruled that, even without proving any persecution measures directed against him individually, he is entitled to the benefits provided in German indemnification legislation for the impairment of professional or economic advancement.
An applicant need only belong, says Germany’s top tribunal, “to the group of persons which the Nazi Party intended to exclude, in its entirety, from the economic and cultural life of Germany.”
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