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Supreme Court rules against heirs of Jewish art dealers

WASHINGTON    The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday against the heirs of Jewish art dealers who suffered a huge loss after selling an important collection of medieval artifacts to Nazi leaders in Germany in the 1930s. In a unanimous decision, the justices held that Germany is shielded by the principle of “sovereign immunity” and said federal law bars U.S. courts from deciding most legal claims involving foreign governments, except those involving “property taken in violation of international law.” The high court agreed with Germany that this exception applies only to property taken from foreigners, not for “domestic takings.” “This ‘domestic takings rule’ assumes that what a country does to property belonging to its own citizens within its own borders is not the subject of international law,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said for the court in Federal Republic of Germany vs. Philipp.

US court rejects claim against Germany over Nazi treasure

US court rejects claim against Germany over Nazi treasure AFP 3/02/2021 AFP © TOBIAS SCHWARZ The Guelph Treasure, now exhibited in Berlin, was sold at discount prices to the Nazis in 1935 by a group of German Jewish art dealers. The US Supreme Court rejected Wednesday a suit by the heirs of Nazi-era Jewish art dealers for compensation from Germany for a storied collection of medieval art treasures. The court ruled unanimously that Germany had sovereign immunity in US courts from claims over the Guelph collection of gold crosses, jewels and other religious works from the 11th to the 14th centuries. But they avoided comment on the merits of the claim that a group of art dealers was illegally forced to sell the collection at cut prices in 1935 to Prussia, then run by Gestapo founder Hermann Goering, as the Nazis increasingly threatened Jews.

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