Marion Sutton was 7 years old when her family fled Hitler's Germany in 1934. In 2000, after a lengthy claims process, the German government granted Sutton title to a 35-unit apartment building in the former East Berlin, one of nine properties her family left behind. But the legal battle that followed, and that has now landed in a New York court, illustrates how Germany's efforts to provide restitution and promote redevelopment frequently produce deeply unsatisfying outcomes.
March 20, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Marion Sutton was 7 years old on the night in 1934 her mother bundled her out of their Berlin home for the last time. With just one suitcase, they boarded the train that would take them to Switzerland and out of Hitler’s Germany.
“I still remember the SS men getting on the train,” Sutton, now 80, said of the tense border crossing. “Those images never leave you.”
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