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No End in Signy: Institute for Historical Review
Since 1951 Germany has paid more than 102 billion marks, about $61.8 billion at 1998 exchange rates, in federal government reparation payments to Israel and Third Reich victims. In addition, Germans have paid out billions in private and other public funds, including about 75 million marks ($49 million) by German firms in compensation to wartime forced laborers, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported recently. These figures are based on calculations by the German Finance Ministry, the influential paper said.
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U.S. and UK citizen Mr. Gilbert McCrae wrote me another letter, this time already from Valdice prison. I attended most of the court hearings and just like the present public I was not convinced that the murder was proven to him beyond reasonable doubt. As per the legal principle IN DUBIO PRO REO (when in doubt, for the accused) he should have been acquitted and not to be sent to prison for 16 years for unsubstantiated murder. Appeal will be submitted to the Constitutional Court. One paragraph from the letter which relates to very serious facts I cannot afford to make public at this stage. Naturally, I am going to follow-up the case henceforth.
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1) Eavesdropping. Phone eavesdropping falls under the criminal arm of police investigation; also, to criminally charge a Member of Parliament or a Senator is permitted only after specific permission of the chamber this member belongs to. If judge issues permit to eavesdrop beforehand, he obviously presumes that such permission shall be granted, and in such case, he overreached not only his own jurisdiction, but also jurisdiction of judiciary.
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… This a set-up and the situation is getting more interesting: Long before this just described situation, into the region of former Sudetenland, slowly and secretly a big number of Germans was moving in and illegally were acquiring land and real estates (?!?). At the same time, there grows a cases of collaboration of some Czech people with Germans, who in public media constantly pointing out on alleged crimes of (victorious) Czechs committed against innocent (defeated, and Nazis-indoctrinated) so called Sudeten Germans. And so on, exactly in the spirit of the best traditions of the Czech chauvinism and national myths. …
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A US court is being called on to deal with a Czech Holocaust restitution claim for the first time, in what has been described as a landmark case.
A Czech descendent of a Jewish family who perished in the Holocaust during WWII has lodged a complaint in a US court against the Czech state for the return of an art collection that was confiscated by the Nazis — and some of which is now in the hands of the Czech National Gallery.
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