US official: dozens of countries likely approve rules for return of property stolen by Nazis

[Bela]

By Associated Press

9:55 AM PDT, May 19, 2010

PRAGUE (AP) — Dozens of country are likely to agree soon on international rules for returning property stolen by the Nazis, a U.S. official said Wednesday.

More than 30 countries will hold talks Thursday in Prague on draft guidelines regarding restitution, said Stuart Eizenstat, a special adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State on Holocaust issues.

If agreed to, they would be the first international rules ever, Eizenstat said. He said he hoped the rules, which would not be legally binding, could be announced in early June.

"This is the first time in which this difficult issue has been addressed," he told the Associated Press.

Eizenstat said the principles should allow flexibility and other possible means of compensation in cases where a return would be neither practical nor fair because someone else had been using the property for decades.

Six million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis, who seized billions of dollars of gold, art and private and communal property across Europe.http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-eu-czech-us-holocaust,0,7022145,print.story

[VoltaXebec]

Another fucking jew scam!

The State Department estimated that during the War, Switzerland purchased from Germany
$276 million in gold, and that "the larger part was looted gold."  In addition, part of the gold that
Switzerland sold during the War to Portugal, Spain, and Turkey ($138-148 million) could have
been looted German gold.  The Treasury Department estimated the amount of looted gold that
Switzerland received from Germany at a minimum of $185 million but more likely $289 million.

http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/rp ... ables1.pdf