From: tichauer@valpso.hanse.de (Manfredo Tichauer)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: CLAIMS AGAINST FORMER GDR (German Democratic Republic)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 01:24:21 GMT
Organization: "The Private site of Manfredo Tichauer"

    
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!!!  PLEASE  READ  CAREFULLY  THIS  NOTICE  AND  NOTIFY  EVERY  JEWISH  !!!
!!!  COMMUNITY, INSTITUTION AND PERSON WHO  MIGHT  HAVE CLAIMS AGAINST  !!!
!!!          THE FORMER G.D.R. (German Democratic Republic)             !!!
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    This notice was distributed in our community in Hamburg (in german)



    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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    *   EXPIRY FOR CLAIMS ON ACOUNT OF LOSS OF ASSETS OF WHICH THE    *
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    *   OWNERS WERE DEPRIVED DUE TO NATIONAL-SOCIALISTIC INJUSTICE    *
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    *      AND/OR ILLEGAL WITHDRAWAL THROUGH THE FORMER G.D.R.        *
    *      ==================================================         *
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    *  Next                                                           *
    *                      December.31st.1992                         * 
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    *  is the  time-limit to  registrate assets which are situated    *
    *  in  the  territory  of the former  G.D.R.  and of which the    * 
    *  owners were deprived due to  national-socialistic injustice    *
    *  and/or  to measures taken by the former G.D.R.In both cases    *
    *  of  damage, such  loss of  property  can also have resulted    *
    *  from measures of private persons.                              *
    *                                                                 *
    *  The term "Vermoegenswerte" (~assets) is to be understood in    *
    *  its full  meaning:  it does not only refer  to real estates    *
    *  and enterprises but also to interests, other rights, etc.      *
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    *  There is a special application lapse for movables until        *
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    *                      June.30th.1993                             *
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    *  Former legal  owners  (e.g.proprietors)  respectively their    *
    *  successors in interest (e.g.heirs) are entitled to applica-    *
    *  tion and restitution.                                          *
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    *  These claims should be submitted at the respectively compe-    *
    *  tent authorities in the former G.D.R.                          *
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    *  The time-limits in question also concern the claims to res-    *
    *  titution for the expropriated assets.                          *
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    *  This notice  necessarily  remains incomplete for reasons of    *
    *  conciseness and does not substitute legal advice.              *     
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    *   FRISTABLAUF FUER ANSPRUECHE WEGEN VERMOEGENSVERLUSTE, DIE     *
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    *   AUF  NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN  UNRECHTS  UND/ODER  RECHTS-     *
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    *   WIEDRIEGE ENTZIEHUNG DURCH DIE EHEMALIGEN  D.D.R. BERUHEN     *  
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    *  Am                                                             *
    *                      31.Dezember.1992                           *
    *                      ----------------                           *
    *  laeuft die Frist fuer die Anmeldung von Vermoegenswerten ab,   *
    *  die sich auf dem Gebiet der ehemaligen DDR befinden und den    *
    *  Eigentuemern  durch  nationalsozialistisches  Unrecht  oder    *
    *  Massnahmen der ehemaligen DDR entzogen worden sind.In beiden   *
    *  Faellen der Schaedigung kann der Verlust auch durch Massnah-   *
    *  men von Privaten entstanden sein.                              *
    *                                                                 *      
    *  Der Begriff "Vermoegenswerte" ist in einem umfassenden Sinne   *
    *  zu verstehen. Hiermit sind nicht nur Grundstuecke und Unter-   * 
    *  nehmen gemeint, sondern auch Beteiligungen, sonstige Rechte,   *
    *  etc.                                                           *
    *                                                                 *
    *  Fuer bewegliche Sachen laeuft eine gesonderte Anmeldefrist     *
    *  bis zum                                                        *
    *                        30.Juni.1993                             *
    *                        ------------                             * 
    *  Berchtigt zur Anmeldung und Rueckerstattung sind die ehemali-  *
    *  gen Rechtsinhaber (z.B. Eigentuemer) bzw. ihre Rechtsnachfol-  *
    *  ger (z.B. Erben).                                              * 
    *                                                                 *
    *  Anzumelden sind die Ansprueche bei der jeweils zustaendigen    *
    *  Behoerden in der ehemaligen DDR.                               *
    *                                                                 *
    *  Von den genannten Fristen sind auch Ansprueche auf Entschae-   *
    *  digung fuer den enteigneten Vermoegensgegenstand betroffen.    *
    *                                                                 *  
    *  Dieser Hinweis muss wegen seiner Kuerze unvollstaendig sein    * 
    *  und ersetzt keine Rechtsberatung.                              *
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Please inform your  Jewish community and  any former German citizen you know
(and/or their heirs), who might have lived or had properties in the territo-
ries of the former 
  
                    D D R  (Democratic Republic of Germany)

The have to call , write or go to a German  Consulate and inform  themselves 
about the next steps they have to follow.  If somebody needs a German lawyer 
specialized  in  the  so called  "WIEDERGUTMACHUNG"  (reparations),   I  can 
recommend one whom I know since many years and works in this field since 1949.
His name is

                  Hermann R.  Fischer-Huebner
                  Rechtsanwalt und Notar a.D.
                  Hansastrasse 49
                  2000 Hamburg 13           Tel.: ( ++ 49 40)  45.64.39
                  GERMANY                   FAX : ( ++ 49 40) 410.65.22


He works also together with the

            CONFERENCE ON JEWISH MATERIAL CLAIMS AGAINST GERMANY
                            Office for Germany
        
        Wiesenau 53                     Tel.  : ( ++ 49 69)  72.07.21
        6000 Frankfurt/M 1              FAX   : ( ++ 49 69)  72.11.04
        GERMANY                         Cable : Restitution Frankfurt

Mrs. and Mr. Fischer-Huebner wrote a book called

                   "DIE KEHRSEITE DER WIEDERGUTMACHUNG"
       -Die Leiden der NS-Verfolgten in den Entschaedigungsverfahren-
                                 von 
                    Helga und Hermann Fischer-Huebner
                          Bleicher Verlag,  1990  
                            ISBN 3-88350-026-7

Die Arbeit enthaelt auch wissenschaftliche Beitraege von

* Prof.Dr.Med. Jan Gross           - Direktor der Psychiatrischen und Nerven-
                                     klinik der Universitaet Hamburg
* Prof.Dr.Med. Hellmuth Freyberger - Psychosomatik an der Med.Hochschule in
                                     Hannover
* Prof.Dr.Jur. Hans Peter Bull     - Verwaltungsrecht, z.Z Innenminister des
                                     Landes Schleswig-Holstein    


PS: FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND GERMAN:

                   "  W I E D E R G U T M A C H U N G  "

is the official word for the english word REPAIRS and means literally "to make
again something good" , as if somebody could  make good again for the lifes of
6 millions Jewish and many more millions of non Jewish lifes, and also for the
sufferings of those who survived the concentrations camps.
Germans like to minimize (or forget)  what was done in the name of the german
nation (Volk) and don't want to see, read  or hear about its own history. For
example they call the night from 9-10.November.1938 the "REICHSKRISTALLNACHT"
instead of the "REICHSPOGROMMNACHT". In that night, 191 synagogues in Germany
and Austria were burnt down and another 76 were plundered; 7500 jewish shops
and 171 apartment houses were destroyed and plundered and their windows broken
(from there comes the word ...KRISTALLnacht); 35.000 Jews were sent to concen-
tration camps, 91 Jews were murdered and hundreds commited suicide(*).All this
happened in a night with such a nice name. Also a very common sentence used by
many germans is: " man muss einen Strich unter die Rechnung ziehen ", literally
meaning "one has to draw a line under the bill"  but really meaning that after
so "many" years (47 years since the end of WWII) and having "paid so much" to
the survivors and to Israel, one has to forget everything. I just want to warn
all of you who think that all germans think like that !!. The mayority of the
germans are more sensible, but I suppose that at least 35 per cent think the
other way and that is bad enough. BTW, no gipsies got reparations from  Germa-
ny: they are still considered (of course unoficially) "Untermenschen" although
the same feeling about them have the spaniards, french, and most of other eu-
ropeans where gipsies live.

(*)"Das Dritte Reich" by Eberhard Aleff, Fackeltraeger Verlag, Edition Zeit-
                         geschehen, Hannover, 1970, page 85

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