Nazi-Looted Posters Must Return to Sachs Heir, Court Rules
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A German court ordered Berlin’s Deutsches Historisches Museum to return a collection of 4,259 posters looted by the Gestapo to the son of Hans Sachs, a Jewish dentist who fled Nazi Germany.
The Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe, the highest court in Germany for civil affairs, today overturned a January 2010 ruling by a Berlin appeals court. Sachs, a retired airline pilot from Sarasota, Florida, has been fighting a legal battle for his father’s posters since a German government panel rebuffed his claim in 2007. The Deutsches Historisches Museum, owned by the German government and the state of Berlin, estimates their value at more than 4.5 million euros ($5.9 million.)