Germany may soon settle with descendants of a Jewish businessman who was forced to sell his property for a song by the Nazis. Germany’s Finance Ministry says it wants a settlement with the Claims Conference, which handles Holocaust-related restitution cases, on the property expropriated from the Wertheim family in the 1930s. The property is currently valued at $250 million.
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