(16 Mar 2012) HEADLINE: Court rules US man to get Nazi-seized art
CAPTION: Germany's top federal appeals court has ruled that a Berlin museum must return thousands of posters to an American Jew. They'd been seized from Paul Sach's father Hans by the Nazis. (16 March 2012)
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FILE: Berlin - 23 January 2007
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1. Various of posters formerly owned by Hans Sachs exhibited at the German Historical Museum
2. Various of Peter Sachs, son of former poster collector Hans Sachs, arriving at German Historical Museum and visiting exhibition
Berlin, 16 March 2012
3. SOUNDBITE (English translation over German) Matthias Druba, German lawyer of Peter Sachs:
"Mr. Sachs is relieved about the verdict which gives him the possibility now to close a chapter of his family history. Hitler and Hitler alone disrupted the history of an exemplary German man, Hans Sachs. We had to fight three court cases to close the chapter."
FILE: Berlin - 23 January 2007
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4. Pan of poster from the Sachs collection at the German Historical Museum
5. Mid of Peter Sachs looking at posters
6. Various of posters
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Only a handful of the thousands of rare posters collected by Hans Sachs were normally on display in a Berlin museum on a day-to-day basis.
That's set to change, now that his son, an American Jew, has won a ruling from Germany's top federal appeals court.
It says not only is Peter Sachs the rightful owner of the collection stolen by the Gestapo during Nazi rule, but he's entitled to have the posters back.
His lawyer says Sachs is grateful that the legal fight has finished...
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the lawyer says the objective now is to find a museum that will show more of the posters to a wider public.
The collection - parts of it dating back to the turn of the 20th century -- is believed to be worth anywhere between six and 21 million dollars.
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