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Law Practice

Jul. 4, 2012

Theft, hiding and restitution

A court in Germany ruled that the heirs of Hans Prym had the right to the return of one of the most important Mercedes-Benz cars in existence. By Jonathan Michaels of Michaels Law Group


Some 67 years ago, the last of the great world wars drew to an end, and with that we briefly closed a chapter on crimes against humanity, failures of diplomacy, and tyrant dictators seeking to rule it all. With laws of morality no longer in place, soldiers pillaged with unnatural frequency and nations took without due process - all with the expectation that the details would be lost in the chaos of it all.


And for many years they were mostly right. Families lost ...

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