The Tribunal de Commerce de la Seine has just issued an important ruling affecting the property of Jewish refugees in France. The Court decided that any property of “Aryanized” Jewish firms in France must be returned to their former owners and not to their present Nazi administrators.
The case before the Court concerned the Sudeten firm “Roha” which drew a bill on a French firm amounting to 20,000 francs. Before the payment fell due, the Sudeten district was occupied by Germany and the owner of the firm, a Jew by the name of Lovic, fled to London from where he claimed the money from the French firm. The Nazis in the meantime took over the firm and put in a certain Herr Walter as Commissar who also claimed the money from the French firm. The French firm, however, waited for the Nazi Commissar Walter and Lovic to take out a summons, and the case was heard before the Tribunal de Commerce.
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