The Berlin Land Court today ruled that all former inmates of the Shanghai Ghetto should be compensated in accordance with established compensation laws in this city. Previously, the Berlin Senate maintained that the Shanghai Ghetto was set up by the Japanese authorities, but evidence has been produced proving that the ghetto in the Chinese city was established on instructions from the Nazi Government. Jews interned in the Shanghai Ghetto were principally refugees from Germany or from German-held areas.
A restitution court in Cologne has decided that a former German Jewish lawyer who left the country was entitled to submit written appeals and appear before the Restitution Chamber on behalf of his client. The defendant’s lawyers had contested this right. In the decision handed down by the Chamber, it was noted that if this right were denied, “the prosecution of claims by our former fellow Jewish citizens would be made unnecessarily difficult.”
The Bavarian court dealing with the Auerbach affair has agreed to permit Philip Auerbach to appear before the Parliamentary Committee examining the affairs of the Office of Restitution of which he was formerly director. The defendant is expected to appear before the Committee next week.
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