Germany: Compensation for Nazi Seizures Increased

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A Berlin court has ordered Germany to pay the heirs of Jewish owners of a department store chain about $68 million in additional compensation for property seized by the Nazis. The Berlin administrative court said Thursday that the Schocken family had lost its chain of stores, primarily in Saxony, during the Nazis’ so-called Aryanization of businesses in the 1930s. The family was paid about $20 million for one building in the 1990s, but family members said the others had been undervalued. The court ruled that the heirs, who live in Israel and the United States, should receive the additional payment.